shamefacedness
Example Sentences
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Ashton climbed out of the chair and looked at Micky with a sort of shamefacedness.
From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
The men received the pleasant salutation of Hamilton with awkwardness, but without any trace of shamefacedness, for they had the consciousness of their righteous cause to give them confidence in a strange environment.
From Making People Happy by Harrison Fisher
It was always a rosy face, but now with excitement and shamefacedness, it was as red as a harvest moon, coming up from the darkness.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
Covertly and with a sly shamefacedness, unlike himself, he was trying to read the expression in the huntsman's face.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
It was done without a bit of shamefacedness on his part, and with the energy and the tenderness too of affection.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
