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Shamefaced

adjective
1.
Extremely modest or shy.
2.
Showing a sense of shame.  Synonym: sheepish.
3.
Showing a sense of guilt.  Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamed.  "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"



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"Shamefaced" Quotes from Famous Books



... with shamefaced eagerness in getting the wagon off the road and preparing to hunt a shop. He made piteous grimaces over ...
— Old Caravan Days • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... master Heywood, I may go where I will?' said Dorothy, venturing a half-roguish, but wholly shamefaced glance ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... great looking-glass; and a voice, which might have terrified Hoffmann of Berlin, suddenly spoke as if some spring had been touched, "You see here, gentlemen, something that God can never see through all eternity, that is to say, your like. God has not His like." And out you went, too shamefaced ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... this crowd of beggars and shamefaced creatures some lordly carriage passed from time to time containing a Fox, or a thieving Magpie, or some ...
— Pinocchio - The Tale of a Puppet • C. Collodi

... down at the humble giant, shamefaced in the moonlight, tying his broken bridle reins back in their rings, and drawing the knots tight with his bronzed fingers that looked like the coupling-pins of a cart,—and then at the hunchback doubled up in his saddle. Maybe,—and my blood began to rise with it,—maybe ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post


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