Sentence examples for shamefaced from inspiring English sources

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shamefaced

adjective

Bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment

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And passengers are not even enjoying a tax holiday at the airport, as most airlines have raised fares by an equal 7.5% (though Delta and US Airways are promising, shamefaced, to refund the money to customers).

In Brazil, he argues, racism is veiled and shamefaced, not open or institutional.

Our shamefaced apologies to Boris Pasternak; his famous lovers of course never married.In this section Devoured by his own creation Nice but tricky An easy birth A good read Glory days Big Daddy and his awkward sons-in-law Correction: Yuri Zhivago Reprints Related items Russia's intelligentsia under communism: Yearning to be freeJul 2nd 2009.

The former Thai prime minister must have been dismayed by the surreal sight of his slightly shamefaced players circuiting Eastlands in front of a mass of empty blue seats.

A Million Little Pieces By James Frey A shamefaced Frey had to go on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admit that the "demons" which had made him turn to alcohol and drugs had also driven him to fabricate crucial portions of his so-called memoir of addiction and crime.

R.R. felt shamefaced about the car and took it out of service.

(Not shamefaced afterward — flaunting and wicked; it is the nineteen-seventies, after all. But it's boys we want).

This I tried to explain, shamefaced, to my hostess, Jadviga, who brushed off my refusals and piled dumplings with sour cream on my plate.

Her ending — Agave and the other Bacchae repent and slink off, shamefaced, to live in exile — is a bit of a feminist cop-out.

He, at least, had had the grace to be shamefaced.

But it wasn't until last year that New York shops stopped being shamefaced about the fact that some of their best beach things had their inspiration in California.

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