shamefacedness
Example Sentences
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It was always a rosy face, but now with excitement and shamefacedness, it was as red as a harvest moon, coming up from the darkness.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
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
He was freshly shaven and clipped, smartly dressed in his best clothes and ball shoes, and, in spite of the sickly expression of shamefacedness and anxiety which distorted his features, he looked younger than usual.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
Ashton climbed out of the chair and looked at Micky with a sort of shamefacedness.
From The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres
The sense is, who, being pictured red, shows the blushing shamefacedness of being outdone in his own seraphic nature by an earthly saint.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
