abashed
Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
Adjective
- Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
- So spake the Lord Goldry Bluszco, standing in great pride and splendour beneath the starry canopy, and scowling terribly on the Ambassador from Witchland, so that the Ambassador was abashed and his knees smote together....
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- simple past and past participle of abash
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ashamed confounded confused discomfited discomposed disconcerted discountenanced dismayed dumbfounded embarrassed humiliated mortified nonplussed out of countenance perturbed shamefaced taken aback