shamefaced
Example Sentences
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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
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
He, at least, had had the grace to be shamefaced.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011
Imagine, Tata Ndu said, a shamefaced chief who could only afford one single wife!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
