shamefaced
Example Sentences
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They get shamefaced very quickly after I tell them I was burned badly as a child.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2020
Most cases end amicably: shamefaced neighbours return the cat, everyone moves on.
From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 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
Who can put a price tag on the shamefaced retraction I owe that guy from Takoma Park?
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2015
Fingers smarting, the shamefaced Taran hurried from the cottage and found Coll near the vegetable garden.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
