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

His hangdog look is interrupted by a sudden grin.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2017

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

The hangdog look left his eyes, and the hunch went out of his shoulders.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer