abashed; abashing; abashes
: to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert
He had never blushed in his life; no humiliation could abash him.—Charlotte Brontë
abashment
noun
… I turned to Susan, still sitting there huddled up in her coat, looking, to my abashment, as helpless as the day I had found her.
—Phillip Roth
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