loss of face
Example Sentences
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State Premier Daniel Andrews said that, for all the loss of face, he did not have to think long about cancelling on the CGF.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024
After relentlessly insisting all year that the Games should go ahead, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Bach would suffer a massive loss of face from any cancellation.
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2021
The results of the audit would not be released, to spare the defeated candidate a loss of face.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016
That would be no worse loss of face for them than if, on our return, we describe how Isis’s word isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2016
Again, she may not give a single cash, but even that won't imply any loss of face, as far as I am concerned.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
