Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bashfully; with excessive modesty.
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- adverb In a
shamefaced manner.
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- adverb in a shamefaced manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Again, we have that she was 'a wanton hussy '; her' trolloping muse 'shamefacedly' wallowed in the mire '; but finally the historian is bound to confess' she was never dull '.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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She paused, biting her lower lip a touch shamefacedly.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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The scumbags get caught sneaking in more bling toys to live the high life, so they shamefacedly say they are not gonna buy they planes.
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An outcry was generally voiced as he shamefacedly recovered it.
The DreydelMaker (exerpt) Daniel Passamaneck 2010
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However, my favorite moment came when brainiac humorist Sarah Vowell shamefacedly admitted that the only reason she had heard of “Chrismukkah” was because she used to watch The O.C. Did you see Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black?
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Will the Democratic Party hang its collective head shamefacedly over the performance of its Senate Judiciary Committee members during the Alito hearings?
Television 2009
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In the New Testament, women are given special instruction to behave shamefacedly, and dress in modest apparel.
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Misinterpreting his silence, Martinez glanced over at him a little shamefacedly.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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In the New Testament, women are given special instruction to behave shamefacedly, and dress in modest apparel.
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That time Israel agreed to accept the team, only to demand more and more concessions, finally reneging on its promise and rejecting the investigation altogether, leaving UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to shamefacedly disband the team, then cooling their heels in Geneva, and send them home.
hernesheir commented on the word shamefacedly
"I hope the once vexed question of docking horses is now settled, but a good many puppies are still deprived of their tails by breeders, or, shamefacedly, by us. The only excuse for the operation, barring disease of the tail, is fashion." - The Countryman rural English peridical, Autumn 1957, p.439.
November 2, 2009