shamefacedness

He said to her much the same as he had said to me before lunch, with, perhaps, a little more shamefacedness.

Dick's rather combative look changed instantly into shamefacedness, and he shook hands again.

Germinie tried to push her away with a gesture of humility and the shamefacedness of a servant.

A sort of shamefacedness prevents him from avowing it, as a boy at boarding-school hides his homesickness, or a lad his love.

She turned and faced a dark, elderly personage, the robust dignity of whose bearing was now tempered with shamefacedness.