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

Lupita stood for a moment, looking up into Captain Ortega’s fierce, dark eyes; then she gazed past him at shamefaced Paco.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty