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Meanings of half ashamed in English

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Usage of half ashamed in English
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He looked at the grub half ashamed and made a wry face.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
2
Suddenly the girl remembered me, and standing up she said, half ashamed:
The Sky Pilot: A Tale of the Foothills
3
He took it up slowly as if half ashamed of his weakness.
How Jerusalem Was Won / Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign i...
4
He was half proud, half ashamed of the thing that had happened.
Marching Men
5
I now boldly advanced, half ashamed, though laughing at my previous fears.
My First Voyage to Southern Seas
6
Nothing, most likely, yet I am always half ashamed that I stayed behind.
The voyage of the dawn treader
7
The woman, half ashamed, half recalcitrant, in the end promised amendment.
The History of David Grieve
8
The master rode away, half ashamed of his foolish concern for the derelicts.
Tales of Trail and Town
9
He was more than half ashamed to tell her the truth.
A Life's Morning
10
And he was half proud and half ashamed of his notoriety.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
11
It was his excuse for these confidences, of which he was half ashamed.
Sisters
12
True, it was an impulse of which he was more than half ashamed.
The Street Called Straight
13
He laughed again as if he were half ashamed of his own feeling.
The Woman with the Fan
14
Something he was half ashamed and half proud of, love of his country.
A Poor Wise Man
15
She felt more than half ashamed of her uncle's eccentricity in this matter.
Hunter's Marjory / A Story for Girls
16
She was standing with head down, half angry and half ashamed.
The Christian: A Story
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