shamefaced
Example Sentences
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Shamefaced Hungarian players, who did not share the fire-eating Communist's opinions, privately apologized to the U.S. team.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shamefaced, Tattiana downward looked As if he cruelly had joked!
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry
"Shamefaced, come; don't you know this gentleman?" said her aunt, encouragingly.
From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur
Shamefaced as he appeared, there was yet a kind of twinkle in his eyes.
From The Weight of the Crown by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
Shamefaced curiosities began to come back into her mind, thinly disguised as literature and art.
From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
