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Ashamedly

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a·shamed  (-shmd)
adj.
1. Feeling shame or guilt: Are you ashamed for having lied?
2. Feeling inferior, inadequate, or embarrassed: ashamed of my torn coat.
3. Reluctant through fear of humiliation or shame: ashamed to ask for help.

[Middle English, from Old English sceamod, past participle of sceamian, to feel shame : -, intensive pref. + sceamian, to feel shame.]

a·shamed·ly (-shmd-l) adv.
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Adv.1.Ashamedly - with a feeling of shameashamedly - with a feeling of shame              
barefacedly, shamelessly, unashamedly - without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it"


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Bud is an impostor living a borrowed life; ashamedly taking handouts from his working-class father while protesting the manner in which the charity is offered, belying, as Carl might say, his understanding of the value of money but not of work.
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We would like to offer our grateful thanks to this family as in all the laughing and joking as to what would be said on our return, we ashamedly did not make a note of their names.
 
 
 
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