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shamefaced
[ sheym-feyst ]
adjective
- modest or bashful.
- showing shame:
shamefaced apologies.
shamefaced
/ ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪstlɪ; ʃeɪmˈfeɪsɪdlɪ; ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst /
adjective
- bashful or modest
- showing a sense of shame
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Derived Forms
- shameˈfacedness, noun
- shamefacedly, adverb
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Other Words From
- shame·fac·ed·ly [sheym-, fey, -sid-lee, sheym, -feyst-lee], adverb
- shamefaced·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shamefaced1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shamefaced1
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Example Sentences
She finished amid much applause, some shamefaced, some hearty, but there were a number of lowering brows.
Father and son shook hands, and Sir John walked feebly to the stiff-backed chair, where he sat down in shamefaced silence.
Everybody looked around, and the man seemed a little shamefaced at his exhibition of hostility to a wooden disk.
A little grin, almost a shamefaced grin, I thought, broke his round moist face up into fat wrinkles.
Reassured, she kissed the pasteboard fervently, and put it down with shamefaced, fluttering haste.
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