abashment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for abashment
Noun
  • The press had assembled to watch Earhart soar, and instead witnessed an embarrassment.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • King, whose chapter represents Treasury employees in the D.C. area, accused the national union of just hoping the internal problem goes away, and instead the issue is creating an embarrassment.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Some of those who chose to evacuate didn’t do so promptly, and there was widespread confusion whether evacuation was necessary at all.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
  • The end result of this copycat strategy was external confusion, internal demoralization, and financial underperformance.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
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“Abashment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abashment. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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