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shamefacedly

adv. In a shamefaced manner.

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shamefacedly

adv. in a shamefaced manner; "quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies"

Usage examples of "shamefacedly".

And then the young fellow laughed shamefacedly and glanced at the clock-" I was wondering just how soon I could go back -to Pollyanna.

And with gruff bonhomie, smiling shamefacedly into each other's manly eyes with a twinkle that might almost have been a tear, they would have clasped one another's diffident but horny hands.

Every so often somebody shamefacedly turns in a few pages of logic or math.

Memory reported in, shamefacedly admitting to a few gaps in the record, but everything seemed consistent with his having shared one more pipe with Salasso, then walked back to his room, fallen asleep fully dressed, woken around midnight from colorful dreams, read for an hour or so, and then gone to bed properly, a mere five hours or so earlier.

After she shamefacedly admitted having been upset by her heavyworlder patient, and voiced her concerns about its effect on her treatment to him.

That was the day she had admitted, shamefacedly and feeling she was guilty of a terrible sin against the Weyrleaders and the Weyr, that she could hear the speech of other dragons.

Dumik had rather shamefacedly translocated a sizable stack of driftwood in from various beaches here and there on the reef.

Durnik had rather shamefacedly translocated a sizable stack of driftwood in from various beaches here and there on the reef.