Words similar to ashamed

Example sentences for: ashamed

How can you use “ashamed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I may get cosmetic surgery for my “Asian eyes” or use skin lighteners for my dark skin, but I reinforce the implicitly racist social norms that say that Asian eyes or dark skin are traits to be ashamed of.
Most of us have equivalent fantasies, but we'd be ashamed to expose ourselves by putting them out there.
I grew sullen and ashamed of my surroundings.
This stigma is the natural flip side of the work ethic: If you "honor and support work," in Clinton's phrase, then you are at least slightly dishonored and ashamed to get a handout that goes to people who don't work a lick.
... [A]s Judges shelter their knavery by precedents, so do scholars their ignorance by authority: and when they cannot reason, it is safer and less disgraceful to repeat that nonsense at second hand, which they would be ashamed to give originally as their own.