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UK
/ʃˈeɪmfeɪst/
]
ADJECTIVE
- showing a sense of shame
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showing a sense of guilt
a guilty look
the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy -
extremely modest or shy
cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise
How To Use shamefaced In A Sentence
- From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
- Rod went on, with a kind of shamefaced mingling of jest and earnest: Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II
- There was nothing of triumph about his lugubrious, almost shamefaced expression. THE LAST RAVEN
- He held her artless gaze for a moment, then laughed shamefacedly. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
- Next day the shamefaced deputies of the Riksdag were forced to walk between lines of troops with fixed bayonets to assemble in a Parliament Hall surrounded by field guns, each with an artillerist standing behind it with a lighted taper.
- And though the "lubricity" of these poems is free from some ugly features which appear after the Italian wars of the late fifteenth century, it has never been more frankly destitute of shamefacedness. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
- All those voters who shamefacedly backed the Tories in the secrecy of the polling booth are probably feeling vindicated.
- Her eyes were turned away from him and she answered with a kind of shamefaced defiance. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
- He simply looked at her with bewilderment, then asked her, somewhat shamefaced, whether they knew each other. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- I smothered a laugh as my dad suddenly stopped midway through his angry tirade directed at a group of shamefaced security officers, and slowly pivoted his head in our direction.
