hangdog look

Example Sentences

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I recently watched some of your “Godfather” screen tests and you seemed to have this hangdog look on your face as you are asked to go through it again and again.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022

Sting passes through the production with the rumbling chest, scratchy voice and hangdog look of his character, whose lungs have been ruined by his trade.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2020

We want a Hollywood ending that redeems our pain at witnessing this parade of diminishment – Rick’s hangdog look, broken Eugene’s unwillingness to leave Alexandria, the unacceptably, un-American stink of defeat.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2016

Adam Brace, who in Stovepipe brought Iraq to a Shepherd's Bush shopping mall, provides an underdog but not hangdog look at the Games.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2012

“I reckon I can. I’ll describe your hangdog look and shoeless state for her too. Lay you a good solid groundwork for some groveling.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss