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Definitions for: Shamefaced
[adj] showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
[adj] showing a sense of shame
[adj] extremely modest or shy; "cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise"- H.O.Taylor
Webster (1913) Definition: Shame"faced`, a. [For shamefast; AS. scamf[ae]st.
See Shame, n., and Fast firm.]
Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident;
bashful; modest.
Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.
--Dryden.
Note: Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was
shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but
the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face,
have brought it to its present orthography. --Trench.
-- Shame"faced, adv. -- Shame"faced`ness, n.
Synonyms: ashamed(p), guilty, hangdog, modest, shamed, sheepish
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