shamefaced

Example Sentences

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There are the shamefaced former members, who confess their gullibility as a kind of penance; there are the cockamamie claims on which the belief system is based.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

We also tend to assume that something is safe if everyone else is doing it, or at least maintain a shamefaced silence about our fears.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020

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

Blubbering, then, is nothing to be ashamed of — even though we may still feel a little shamefaced about it.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2010

First we are soldiers and afterwards, in a strange and shamefaced fashion, individual men as well.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque