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
They get shamefaced very quickly after I tell them I was burned badly as a child.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2020
There was somehow something shamefaced in him as he answered.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2017
Who can put a price tag on the shamefaced retraction I owe that guy from Takoma Park?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2015
Imagine, Tata Ndu said, a shamefaced chief who could only afford one single wife!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
