shamefaced

Example Sentences

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To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little shamefaced when analysing the complicity between Trump and the journalists whom he officially reviles.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2020

They get shamefaced very quickly after I tell them I was burned badly as a child.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 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

He saw a shy but shamefaced curiosity in her, and several times she’d seemed about to speak, and then think better of it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor