shamefaced
Example Sentences
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There are the shamefaced former members, who confess their gullibility as a kind of penance; there are the cockamamie claims on which the belief system is based.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
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
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
Lupita stood for a moment, looking up into Captain Ortega’s fierce, dark eyes; then she gazed past him at shamefaced Paco.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
