What is "losing face"

Usage examples of "losing face".

As you can imagine, the young noble didn't accept losing face in front of friends and accused Girolamo of cheating.

A corporal could appeal to the army's disciplinary mechanism without losing face.

After two nights of keeping up with the local Joneses, he'd nearly died on the morning run with his team, and only avoided falling out for fear of losing face before the Russian Spetsnaz people they were teaching to come up to RAINBOW standards.

Usually they were framed as jests that allowed him to let her know how he felt, while giving her the opportunity to avoid them without either of them losing face.

Brun didn't like losing face and the son of his mate didn't make it any easier.

Their plan was to try to find a compromise that might let them out of the whole affair without losing face.

Then, by rights, he woulda backed Kamal up to an appropriate distance so Kamal could get his head straight and go home, and Marlene could relax enough that Shabazz could stand down without losing face.

Raith is the leader of the White Court, but over the past several years he's been losing face.

Delia wanted to give them a chance to back away without losing face.

Even if it means abandoning all of General Malin's heavy equipment and losing face.

He made a deal with Sen'kov to help him, to keep him from losing face.

He is obsessed by the question of ‘losing face’, so will never, under any circumstances, admit that he might be in the wrong.

He had come too close to losing face because of her, and it wasn't the first problem she had caused him.