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

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

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2020

There’s also the Holiday Special’s plot, which features a trade blockade in space – a bit of dour realpolitik Lucas wasn’t too shamefaced to use again in 1999’s The Phantom Menace.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2015

Who can put a price tag on the shamefaced retraction I owe that guy from Takoma Park?

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2015

First we are soldiers and afterwards, in a strange and shamefaced fashion, individual men as well.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque