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

To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little shamefaced when analysing the complicity between Trump and the journalists whom he officially reviles.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 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

Lupita stood for a moment, looking up into Captain Ortega’s fierce, dark eyes; then she gazed past him at shamefaced Paco.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty