shamefaced

Example Sentences

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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

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

What’s been excised in both cases is the awkward and the homely, the oddball and the failing—in short, all acknowledgement of our thwarted, shamefaced cravings for connection and intimacy.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2016

He, at least, had had the grace to be shamefaced.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2011

Mordred went over to him with haste, with a sort of shamefaced dissimulation.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White