shamefacedness
/sheym-feyst/US // ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst //UK // (ˈʃeɪmˌfeɪst) //
羞愧的脸,羞愧难当,羞愧的面孔,羞愧的表情
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : modest or bashful.
- : showing shame: shamefaced apologies.
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Examples
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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