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# ashamed

«ashamed» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling bad and guilty because you did something wrong or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (ashamed, more ashamed, most ashamed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ashamed means feeling bad and guilty because you did something wrong or something you think is embarrassing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#m1)

2) Ashamed of someone means feeling that someone else's behaviour reflects badly on you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and personal and social lessons, children learn that feeling ashamed after a mistake can help us say sorry and do better, but people should never be made ashamed of who they are — their family, body, skin, accent or being adopted. In stories, a character who is ashamed often hides the truth until they find courage to admit it. Phrases: ashamed of, ashamed to, feel ashamed, nothing to be ashamed of.

### examples

- I was ashamed of myself for shouting at my sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x1)
- He felt ashamed after he lied to his teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x2)
- There's nothing to be ashamed of — everyone makes mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x3)
- She was too ashamed to tell anyone she had lost the money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x4)
- Never be ashamed of your family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x5)
- You should be ashamed of that behaviour! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x6)
- I am ashamed to meet all these people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/#x7)

### note

Used after a verb: «I am ashamed», not «an ashamed boy». Followed by «of» + noun or -ing, or «to» + verb. Similar: embarrassed (uncomfortable, often about something silly, not necessarily wrong). Noun: shame.

### In the corpora

- [Soft and ashamed, he begs for his shell back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/10/)
- [Suleiman was ashamed of showing off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/3/)
- [Now I am ashamed, and it serves me right.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/19/)
- ["Black sheep" means the family member the others are ashamed of.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/12/)
- [Stealing, killing and lying are things people are ashamed of, so they hide them behind softer words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ashamed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashamed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.