ADJECTIVE
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having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
was red-faced with anger
her blushful beau
the blushing boy was brought before the Principal -
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
red-faced and violent
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
crimson with fury
turned red from exertion
with puffy reddened eyes
How To Use red-faced In A Sentence
- Sweating and red-faced, he'd stood in the middle of the hall, the tea slopping over the marble in a red tide and the newspaper rapidly disintegrating in the currents.
- At a desk to the very side of the room, a very overweight, red-faced man was shuffling through some files and stuffing them into Manila folders.
- One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
- Red-faced officials ordered an investigation into the cause of the accident.
- Swigging something from plastic cups, they grew red-faced and raucous, hiccupping and screeching. Times, Sunday Times
- She was accompanied by an equally red-faced and only slightly less stout younger woman, similarly attired. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Using a procedure they will not make public so as not to give the game away to local ne'er-do-wells, they then freed the red-faced guard from the rear section of the van.
- Fortunately for a red-faced Basham, former Shelbourne striker Foran slammed his shot straight at the legs of Alan Fettis.
- Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
- Between rubber-necking the shiny, red-faced clientele around the dining room, "picnicking" on the potato salad, and chattering away about the unraveling of events of the evening, I was tempted to press the tiny little doorbell that is attached to the edge of every table in the restaurant. Archive 2007-02-01
