shamefacedness
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She turned and faced a dark, elderly personage, the robust dignity of whose bearing was now tempered with shamefacedness.
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
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 Ernest W. Hornung
Covertly and with a sly shamefacedness, unlike himself, he was trying to read the expression in the huntsman's face.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Eleanor felt her "shamefacedness" return upon her, while all the rest were making acquaintance, welcoming and receiving welcome.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
It was done without a bit of shamefacedness on his part, and with the energy and the tenderness too of affection.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
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