Definitions for ashamed

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Spelling: [uh-sheymd]
IPA: /əˈʃeɪmd/

Ashamed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in ashamed (aadehms).

Definitions for ashamed

adjective

  1. feeling shame; distressed or embarrassed by feelings of guilt, foolishness, or disgrace:
  2. unwilling or restrained because of fear of shame, ridicule, or disapproval:
  3. Chiefly Midland U.S. (especially of children) bashful; timid.

Origin of ashamed

before 1000; orig. past participle of earlier ashame (v.) to be ashamed, Middle English, Old English āscamian, equivalent to ā- a-3 + scamian to Examples for ashamed

But she was sure however credulous she might have been, she had done nothing to be ashamed of.

Sabrine says that despite the private horror of what she was going through, she was too ashamed to tell her family.

He was ashamed, and determined to make amends by a frank confession.

For the first time since I put my acceptance letter in the mail, I woke up this morning ashamed of my alma mater.

It is a painful truth that by daylight he was ashamed of his part of the transaction.

I am ashamed of not having seen or believed it so clearly before now.

Some of us will have to be ashamed of our outcry after our dead.

Distraught, confused and ashamed, both men broke down in the courtroom, weeping like children and begging for forgiveness.

No, not ashamed, mother; but I thought it was not business-like, and seemed too much like a schoolboy.

She writes of being “ashamed” of disavowing feminism, professing ignorance of its meaning and mission.

Word Value for ashamed
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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