adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be ashamed/loath to admit sth
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He was ashamed to admit that he had lied to her.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
bitterly
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All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed .
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All the people of Sligo feel bitterly ashamed for what happened.
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She was amazed by her own behaviour and between episodes was bitterly ashamed of what was happening to her.
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She felt bitterly ashamed of the way she'd fallen into Rohan's arms.
deeply
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She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed , for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.
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Immediately afterwards I felt deeply ashamed .
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All the girls were deeply ashamed .
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She dropped her eyes to the tablecloth, suddenly confused and deeply ashamed of herself.
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The worry which most perturbed Winnie was one of which she was deeply ashamed .
so
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When I happen in, they look so ashamed of their poor clothes.
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I felt tremendous guilt the whole time, I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me.
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He had never felt so ashamed .
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I've never been so ashamed in my life.
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We are so ashamed of ourselves that we keep quiet about the whole sorry business.
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I felt so ashamed afterwards, so very ashamed.
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But she had been so ashamed .
too
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On the whole we are too ashamed to use inconvenience as a way of changing behaviour because it seems dishonest and inefficient.
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I am too ashamed to speak the secret wish: I want to write.
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He's too ashamed to let folks see.
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Our buckets and bowls are almost always empty, but we are too ashamed to say anything to each other.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For a long time I was ashamed of my father and the fact he never finished school.
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I didn't want anyone to know I'd been fired because I felt ashamed .
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I realize now that you were telling the truth, and I'm ashamed that I didn't believe you.
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She really needed me but - I'm ashamed to admit it - I didn't help her.
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She was so ashamed of cheating on the test that she went and told the teacher.
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The knowledge that I had caused him to lose his job made me bitterly ashamed .
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There's nothing to be ashamed about - lots of people have money problems.
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You ought to be ashamed of yourself - coming home drunk like that!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And finally: If things are done that the enemy would be ashamed to do, there is an advantage.
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For a second, their generosity towards him made me feel ashamed .
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He had felt ashamed the first time he put it on: it brought him back to his ugliness.
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I was ashamed of myself, you see.
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It made him feel that maybe she was ashamed of him.
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It was the booze talking, John understood that, but he still felt baffled and ashamed .
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She felt ashamed of being such a failure.