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shamed, guilty, shamefaced

adj. showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater

browbeaten, bullied, cowed, intimidated

adj. frightened into submission or compliance

sorry, contrite, remorseful, rueful

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

sorrowful

adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

dominated, henpecked

adj. harassed by persistent nagging

intimidated

adj. made timid or fearful as by threats

docile

adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"

mild, modest, meek

adj. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"

timid

adj. showing fear and lack of confidence

blushful, blushing

adj. having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset; "the blushing boy was brought before the Principal"; "her blushful beau"; "was red-faced with anger"

chagrined, embarrassed, mortified

adj. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"

discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamed, dishonoured

adj. suffering shame

shamefaced, sheepish

adj. showing a sense of shame

acrophobic

adj. suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places

afeard, afeared

adj. a pronunciation of afraid

aghast, appalled, dismayed, shocked

adj. struck with fear, dread, or consternation

agoraphobic

adj. suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places

alarmed

adj. experiencing a sudden sense of danger

algophobic

adj. suffering from algophobia; abnormally afraid of pain

apprehensive, uneasy

adj. in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"

claustrophobic

adj. suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places

fearful

adj. experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

frightened, scared

adj. made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"

horrified, horror-stricken, horror-struck

adj. stricken with horror

hydrophobic, aquaphobic

adj. abnormally afraid of water

mysophobic

adj. suffering from mysophobia; abnormally afraid of dirt or contamination

frightened, panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck, petrified, terrified

adj. thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted"

terror-stricken, terror-struck

adj. struck or filled with terror

triskaidekaphobic

adj. suffering from triskaidekaphobia (abnormal fear of the number 13)

unnerved

adj. deprived of courage and strength; "the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer"

white-lipped

adj. having white lips from fear or terror

xenophobic

adj. suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign

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