Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Embarrassed: "They were caught red-handed, and now they are red-faced” ( Margaret Thatcher).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. with a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
- adj. embarrassed
- adj. inebriate
- adj. angry
- adj. flustered
- adj. exhausted
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a red face.
- In ornithology, having the front of the head red: as, the red-faced or Pallas's cormorant, Phalacrocorax perspicillatus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
- adj. having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
Etymologies
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Examples
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“When I went into the room he looked like he was back from the OK Corral—red-faced, very tired, exhausted.”
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This is double-talk, hypocrisy, and red-faced lying.
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In the videos of his from the peak of his fame, he is a red-faced eruption of testosterone, screaming at the camera in long Charlie Sheen-style soliloquies of inspired abuse.
Johann Hari: Larry Flynt -- Freedom Fighter, Pornographer, Monster?
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I nod, red-faced, and look miserably out the window.
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Local politicians were left red-faced after the people carrier they used to ferry party leader Nick Clegg around town was ticketed when it was parked in Dychurch Lane in the town centre.
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He grew red-faced at her quiet words, “I'm pregnant.”
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Paul Shaffer, red-faced with rage, stands shaking on the corner of West 54th Street and Broadway.
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Next to her was a nurse with a starched collar holding a baby—a red-faced, screaming baby.
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Edgardo, red-faced, furious, retreated, met the manager coming across the dining room.
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Hey Conservative Guy, the only people I see whining these days are big, fat, red-faced white people who call themselves teabaggers.
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