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Examples
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"The Plunge" may be something that's totally unavoidable, and that's nothing to be shame-faced about.
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: Thanksgiving. One Week Later: 3 Ways To Keep Trimming Post-Turkey Heather Bauer 2011
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"The Plunge" may be something that's totally unavoidable, and that's nothing to be shame-faced about.
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: Thanksgiving. One Week Later: 3 Ways To Keep Trimming Post-Turkey Heather Bauer 2011
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The pair are already shame-faced enough about the DVD.
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That's sort of what NPR should be shame-faced about, today.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"There comes my outfit, and Del Bishop as shame-faced as can be, I'm sure, at his failure to connect."
CHAPTER 4 2010
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I thought a moment of clarity would hit them and they would get up, sobered and shame-faced.
Potsdamer Strasse #2 Jasoni 2011
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"The Plunge" may be something that's totally unavoidable, and that's nothing to be shame-faced about.
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN: Thanksgiving. One Week Later: 3 Ways To Keep Trimming Post-Turkey Heather Bauer 2011
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That's sort of what NPR should be shame-faced about, today.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A match that started with such vim and life for Amir ends with a shame-faced pair.
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If you don't want to end up a shame-faced pansy, I'd be careful about where I laid my vote. the onslaught of wickedly emotional responses to the failed campaign of Ms. Clinton are the WORST representation of our party.
Gammerstang commented on the word shame-faced
(adjective) - The quality of being too fearful of losing the esteem of others or doing something that may give them a bad opinion. Shamefaced, easily blushing, easily put out of countenance.
--Daniel Fenning's Royal English Dictionary, 1775
January 14, 2018