shamefaced
adjective
modest or bashful.
shamefacedness
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a word derived from
shamefaced.
Example Sentences
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His wildest spendings were always made without shamefacedness; but, on the contrary, with a bold alacrity, that gave assurance of riches as heaped up as those of an Arabian Night's tale.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
And thus it is called shamefacedness, because the face exhibits the changes of the mind.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
She turned and faced a dark, elderly personage, the robust dignity of whose bearing was now tempered with shamefacedness.
From The Squirrel-Cage by John Alanzo Williams
He was freshly shaven and clipped, smartly dressed in his best clothes and ball shoes, and, in spite of the sickly expression of shamefacedness and anxiety which distorted his features, he looked younger than usual.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan
Eleanor's shamefacedness was upon her in full force when she found herself in the canoe pushing off from the schooner and her friends there.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
