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

I received the same shamefaced response when I called the other two physicians in the Senate—Rand Paul of Kentucky and John Barrasso of Wyoming.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2017

Imagine, Tata Ndu said, a shamefaced chief who could only afford one single wife!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver