shamefaced

Example Sentences

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The fallout, so far, has included shamefaced admissions and apologies from judges; a promise of improvement from the Administrative Office of the U.S.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

This, surely, is how Joyce, a little shamefaced at the stylistic and, in places, emotional excesses of this great early work, would have wanted to hear it done — spoken, not sung.

From New York Times • May 14, 2019

I received the same shamefaced response when I called the other two physicians in the Senate—Rand Paul of Kentucky and John Barrasso of Wyoming.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017

He, at least, had had the grace to be shamefaced.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011

He saw a shy but shamefaced curiosity in her, and several times she’d seemed about to speak, and then think better of it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor