Lexic.us

Definition of Shamefaced

1. Adjective. Extremely modest or shy. "Cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise"

2. Adjective. Showing a sense of shame.

3. Adjective. Showing a sense of guilt. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"

Definition of Shamefaced

1. a. Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.

Definition of Shamefaced

1. Adjective. bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment ¹

2. Adjective. ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shamefaced

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Shamefaced

1. Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest. "Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise." (Dryden) 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. Shame"faced, Shame"facedness. Origin: For shamefast; AS. Scamfst. See Shame, and Fast firm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shamefaced

shambles shamblier shambling shamblingly shamblings shambly shambolic shambolically shame shame, shame

shame on you shame plant shameable shameably shamed shamefaced (current term) shamefacedly shamefacedness shamefast shamefastly

shamefastness shameful shamefully shamefulness shamefulnesses shameless shamelessly shamelessness shamelessnesses shamelike

Literary usage of Shamefaced

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"... [c] under-current, under-tow. blush [at, for]; — sig ved at be ashamed s -lig [a] bashful, shy, shamefaced; — or ashamed of. ..."

2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"regarding it with a. sheepish and shamefaced air, as one so used to be accused, when any sort of mischief had been perpetrated, that he was expecting every ..."

3. Pencraft: A Plea for the Older Ways by William Watson (1916)
"... and with gesture of shamefaced apology, but as means which are dignified and even consecrated by the admitted nobility of their ends; secondly, ..."

4. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"... at last a hobbledehoy of fifteen, fishing out his tuppence from the depths of his corduroy trousers pocket, slouches forward somewhat shamefaced, a r. ..."

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