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suffering from or expressive of a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing
- the newspaper offered a shamefaced apology for having published photographs that were later exposed as fakes
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“Shamefaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamefaced. Accessed 18 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of shamefaced was in 1593
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