shamefaced

Example Sentences

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We also tend to assume that something is safe if everyone else is doing it, or at least maintain a shamefaced silence about our fears.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020

To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little shamefaced when analysing the complicity between Trump and the journalists whom he officially reviles.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2020

They get shamefaced very quickly after I tell them I was burned badly as a child.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011

Prosper pushed his chair back and looked at him, shamefaced.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke