shamefacedness
Example Sentences
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"I say, Jack, stow that!" he said gently, and with a little shamefacedness.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
She turned and faced a dark, elderly personage, the robust dignity of whose bearing was now tempered with shamefacedness.
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
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
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
The mothers kept up as long as possible an appearance of shamefacedness on behalf of their children, who would not be shamefaced themselves.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
