How To Use Shamefaced In A Sentence
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When Hanka Zborowska arrived asking for her portrait Modigliani was shamefaced.
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Rod went on, with a kind of shamefaced mingling of jest and earnest:
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II
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He held her artless gaze for a moment, then laughed shamefacedly.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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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.
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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)
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All those voters who shamefacedly backed the Tories in the secrecy of the polling booth are probably feeling vindicated.
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Her eyes were turned away from him and she answered with a kind of shamefaced defiance.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
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He simply looked at her with bewilderment, then asked her, somewhat shamefaced, whether they knew each other.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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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.
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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Birching is not a dignified process, and the endurer comes therefrom both sore and shamefaced.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
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Yet this is not a film that apologises, like a shamefaced school boy, for its country's past.
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Feeling remarkably like a shamefaced puppy, she trod reluctantly into the kitchen and gave them both that icy what-the-hell-do-you-want look she'd perfected by ninth grade.
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‘Sorry Mrs. Young,’ chorused the others dully, looking slightly shamefaced, and Jesse redder than before.
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Colum looked at them, shamefacedly remembering his own revelry, and winked apologetically at Kathryn.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies
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Youth, after all, is a shamefaced and secretive season; like the fringed polygala, it hides its real blossom underground.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
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Marble and gold and logos abound, and it's only once I've shamefacedly unpacked my non-designer clothes from my unbranded suitcase and headed to Il Barocco for dinner that I properly come down to earth.
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But Nick was already looking shamefaced and cold.
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Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
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And then, somewhat shamefacedly, I ventured out into the garden.
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The singing was a queer, ragged noise — an earnest booming from Mr Macgregor, a kind of shamefaced muttering from the other Europeans, and from the back a loud, wordless lowing, for the Karen Christians knew the tunes of the hymns but not the words.
Burmese Days
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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It is the scientific community and the government's somewhat shamefaced approach to animal research that allows activists to make their impact.
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After this, the first one looks shamefaced and says, ‘Girls, I've got a confession to make.’
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Then they come to themselves and stopped and looked at each other, kind of shamefaced but suspicious.
Cape Cod Stories
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There was nothing of triumph about his lugubrious, almost shamefaced expression.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Yet while the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was marked by the extraordinary Columbian Exposition in Chicago, its 500th anniversary was observed with a kind of shamefaced silence.
A Forgotten Explorateur
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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
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You won't believe this part," he said in a kind of shamefaced way.
The Window-Gazer
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As they turned into the hedges that bordered the door, a man motioned to Gordon, shamefaced.
A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
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‘Well, I, uhm, don't know what I'm going to tell Ricky,’ I admit, shamefaced.
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He held her artless gaze for a moment, then laughed shamefacedly.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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‘Uhh… I know,’ he replied, feeling a little shamefaced.
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‘I know,’ she said, a little shamefaced, ‘but I must take a picture of this.’
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Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
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He came to my office, shamefaced, to apologize.
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Rather shamefaced, he stood back and said gruffly, `Let her go, Lucas, a joke's a joke but we've gone far enough.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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During his detention, he became a cause célèbre among tech activists, who held large protests outside the offices until shamefaced executives dropped their complaint against him.
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He eventually made it to the meeting looking shamefaced but the fact he left the pub at all just goes to show how thoroughly modern this new breed of e-hack really is.
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The 600 guests went home, but she returned, slightly shamefaced, and landed herself a movie deal.
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Shamefacedness is derived from _aidos_ in the Greek, and has
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
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Despite the shamefaced grins that characterised the victims' interviews, there was no mistaking their anger.
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And a While , the young man stood by , shamefaced , and downat - heel , submitting.
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The offer - since shamefacedly upped to $35 million - equates to what?
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They narrowed at Adam, but they didn't contain their previous venom, and Adam glared right back at her, and she turned away, shamefaced.
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A grin spread over Michelle's face, snapping out of her thoughts to look at Heath, though she completely missed the look of shamefaced hurt that washed over his features.
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He looked somewhat shamefaced when he realized his mistake.
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Anyone lighting fireworks in a public place faces arrest and prosecution, so let's look forward to a few shamefaced souls in court.
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He gave a kind of shamefaced nod, but averted his face as he passed.
Twin Moons
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the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy
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I politely refused at first, but after their urgings I finally shamefacedly admitted that I could only eat food cooked with bottled water.
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cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise
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At the next station he helped her to drop through the opening she had entered, and called a shamefaced "good-by" after her in the dusk.
Seven Miles to Arden