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Hangdog

adjective

Showing a sense of guilt. Synonyms: guilty, shamed, shamefaced. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"

Frightened into submission or compliance.

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"Hangdog" Quotes from Famous Books

... troubled up they stole To the deep-shadowed sullen water-hole, Among whose warty snags the quaint perch lair. As cunning stole the boy to angle there, Muffling least tread, with no noise balancing through The hangdog alder-boughs his bright bamboo. Down plumbed the shuttled ledger, and the quill On the ...

— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

... lose the courage he'd screwed up to continue in this direction. He straightened and a little of the hangdog servility dropped away. "I am doing all that is humanly possible to apprehend Lenster. All that any man could do. The secret jails are full. My interrogators work night and day. Even a superficial check of my records would show that more has been ...

— The Clean and Wholesome Land • Ralph Sholto

... said Mr. Harry, "is about one of the hired men we had last winter, whose name was Jacobs. He was a cunning fellow, with a hangdog look, and a great cleverness at stealing farm produce from father on the sly, and selling it. Father knew perfectly well what he was doing, and was wondering what would be the best way to deal with him, when one day something happened that ...

— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders

... spoke a special train with one carriage took the curve of the line on their left, and, stopping, disgorged another group of policemen, in whose midst was the hangdog visage of ...

— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... one exception to this—Silas Thorp. He of the sour face and hangdog manner, it was discovered, had acted with Del Pinzo in stealing cattle, intending to sell them for their own profit, after they had "borrowed" the animals from Diamond X ranch, letting the two professors think the steers had legitimately ...

— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker

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