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

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

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

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011

Fingers smarting, the shamefaced Taran hurried from the cottage and found Coll near the vegetable garden.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander