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

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

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

First we are soldiers and afterwards, in a strange and shamefaced fashion, individual men as well.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque