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
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
Around the world, eugenic programs came to a shamefaced halt.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
