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

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

What’s been excised in both cases is the awkward and the homely, the oddball and the failing—in short, all acknowledgement of our thwarted, shamefaced cravings for connection and intimacy.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2016

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

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

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander