be ashamed
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My hope is the opposite: that he watches a man refuse to be ashamed and thinks, if he can take that and keep his head up, so can I.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
And in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The Spartans should be proud, and the Trojans should be ashamed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"I would be ashamed to have written any part of this," Wilson argued in the London Review of Books, adding it "lacks many of the elements that make the poem great".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
What was new was not the practice of copying others but the idea that this was something to be ashamed of.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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