Meaning of SHAMEFACED
| Pronunciation: | | 'sheym`feyst
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | ashamed(p), guilty, hangdog, modest, shamed, sheepish |
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| | 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.
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