shamefaced

Example Sentences

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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

They get shamefaced very quickly after I tell them I was burned badly as a child.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2020

Most cases end amicably: shamefaced neighbours return the cat, everyone moves on.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

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

I received a shamefaced apology from the boy and was instructed not to worry about him further.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama