shamefaced

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He looked a little shamefaced, and his light eyes were full of something like contrition.

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  1. adjective Indicative of shame; ashamed: a shamefaced explanation.
  2. adjective Extremely modest or shy; bashful.

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  • Then he stood up, shamefaced, and slowly walked away I hid myself behind a vending machine and decided to follow him. —  EQMM, July2006
  • I pretended to be shamefaced, her shrewdness catching me out. —  dummy 3
  • They trickled back, shamefaced, a few each day, until we had about three-quarters of our former staff. —  forestmage
  • But even with prevailing economic orthodoxies shamefaced, New Democrats can't break the journalistic ritual that sees Liberals and Conservatives with a stranglehold on coverage. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Upon our return to the hotel, we expected a shamefaced (but satisfied) Simon to be hanging around ... but no. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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  1. By folk etymology from obsolete shamefast, bashful, ashamed, from Middle English, from Old English sceamfæst : sceamu, shame + fæst, fixed; see fast1.

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  1. A corruption of shamefast, simulating face: see shamefast.
 

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/ˈʃeɪmfeɪst/
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