shamefacedness
Example Sentences
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They gave each other a confidential hug--regret, sympathy, shamefacedness all mingled together.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
This very shamefacedness appealed to her intensely, and yet last night Charlie had said that old Sweep was in such tremendous spirits about it all!
From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung
Covertly and with a sly shamefacedness, unlike himself, he was trying to read the expression in the huntsman's face.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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 Gustave Flaubert
Germinie tried to push her away with a gesture of humility and the shamefacedness of a servant.
From Germinie Lacerteux by Jules de Goncourt
