shamefaced

Example Sentences

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The fallout, so far, has included shamefaced admissions and apologies from judges; a promise of improvement from the Administrative Office of the U.S.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

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

First we are soldiers and afterwards, in a strange and shamefaced fashion, individual men as well.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque