shamefacedness

Example Sentences

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Eleanor felt her "shamefacedness" return upon her, while all the rest were making acquaintance, welcoming and receiving welcome.

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan

With shamefacedness they said they did not mean to be deceitful; they really believed she was dead.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot

Mart� coughed before replying, pulled a bit at his shirt cuffs, and declared, with a gesture between peevishness and shamefacedness: "Nothing—a factory of artificial stones."

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

At last, after many searches, in spite of the entreaties of Bouvard, and flinging aside all shamefacedness, he made up his mind to go for the dung himself.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

The King himself wears an air of shamefacedness when the Stuart prince is mentioned.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness