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Hangdog expression.
A hangdog expression is one where the person's showing their emotions very clearly, maybe a little too clearly for your liking.
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Big nose, sticky-out ears, scrubby beard, hangdog expression.
With his permanent hangdog expression, he's hardly an inspirational figure himself.
A swaggerless Jay appears briefly, around the forty-one-minute mark, wearing a hangdog expression.
"I've given it up for Lent," he said, a hangdog expression on his face.
Those rounded features, that hangdog expression, those meaty paws – love it!
He has a rather sad, hangdog expression - even when talking about his comeback.
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It was a 2-point game with 1.3 seconds to go in the first quarter when Kidd sank a 3-point shot for a 28-23 lead, sending the Pistons to the bench at the break with hangdog expressions.
Rea's sadly hopeful face, with its wide range of hangdog expressions, fits him perfectly for the part, but this opening section of the film never quite hits its stride.
And the hangdog look was gone, replaced by an expression — the lines on the face no longer drooping but hard — that Jack Brooks described as "set".
The $54 Million Crapshoot The droop of his shoulders, the hangdog look, the soft and gentle face, the tendency to greet every question with a blank expression and a high-pitched note of uncertainty ("Ummmmm") -- everything about Eli Manning's outward appearance suggests indecision and youth.
It's not exactly a hangdog look.
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