shamefaced

IPA: ʃˈeɪmfeɪst

Examples of "shamefaced" in Sentences

"You won't believe this part," he said in a kind of shamefaced way.
He gave a kind of shamefaced nod, but averted his face as he passed.
Rod went on, with a kind of shamefaced mingling of jest and earnest:
Her eyes were turned away from him and she answered with a kind of shamefaced defiance.
Then they come to themselves and stopped and looked at each other, kind of shamefaced but suspicious.
At the next station he helped her to drop through the opening she had entered, and called a shamefaced "good-by" after her in the dusk.
From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering.
Yet while the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage was marked by the extraordinary Columbian Exposition in Chicago, its 500th anniversary was observed with a kind of shamefaced silence.
The singing was a queer, ragged noise — an earnest booming from Mr Macgregor, a kind of shamefaced muttering from the other Europeans, and from the back a loud, wordless lowing, for the Karen Christians knew the tunes of the hymns but not the words.