Crossword clues for hangdog
hangdog
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hangdog \Hang"dog`\ (-d[o^]g`), n. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, a. Low; sneaking; ashamed.
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
look.
--Thackeray.
Wiktionary
a. Low; sneaking; ashamed. n. A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
WordNet
adj. showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: guilty, shamefaced, shamed]
frightened into submission or compliance [syn: browbeaten, bullied, cowed, intimidated]
Usage examples of "hangdog".
Julio Cassata was looking hangdog and depressed under the viewscreen, and Essie was pointing at it with fury.
The house had a hangdog look, like a stray being penned up until the dogcatcher comes.
Wolley did not come back for a long time and when he finally did reappear he came with a hangdog expression on his face and in the company of 2 heavily armed ship's crewmen in uniform.
Specldessly clean, as usual, perfectly groomed, he still had a hangdog tentative quality that she found almost as irritating as his former blithe certainty.
The buildings, bars, movie theaters, liquor stores, transient hotels, and tenements had a hangdog look, as if they expected to be ordered off by a policeman.
He was dressed in a crisply clean and spotless white gown and his long face hung down with a hangdog expression, complete with briefcase eyes, a dripping wet nose and a long and lollingly pink tongue.
But for sheer hangdog miserableness, I'm damned if you people don't beat them all—come day, go day, God save Sunday!
Out of the room we went and down the hall, the colonels little detachment of troops following in hangdog route step, wondering where theyd screwed the bird.