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

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

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

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama