shamefacedness
Example Sentences
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Don Lorenzo and Don Feliciano Gomez greeted the newcomer with a certain embarrassment, and with some shamefacedness, all of which confirmed Don Rosendo in his suspicion.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
This very shamefacedness appealed to her intensely, and yet last night Charlie had said that old Sweep was in such tremendous spirits about it all!
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
His wildest spendings were always made without shamefacedness; but, on the contrary, with a bold alacrity, that gave assurance of riches as heaped up as those of an Arabian Night's tale.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
Wilkins had lost his shamefacedness when he reappeared.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
The men received the pleasant salutation of Hamilton with awkwardness, but without any trace of shamefacedness, for they had the consciousness of their righteous cause to give them confidence in a strange environment.
From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison
