as in guilty
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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Recent Examples of shamefaced
His Memoirs contain only a single, shamefaced mention of this wife’s name.
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Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shamefaced
Adjective
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Weinstein pleaded not guilty to all charges in his retrial; both Haley and Mann testified against him again.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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Related article Catch up on the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial so far Combs has denied all wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN Money,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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Up until now, though, those flashbacks, while frustrating, were explaining something about the characters, if crudely: This is why Sister Agnes blames herself; this is why Brian feels so ashamed.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
11 June 2025
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The mother felt ashamed that her son had missed so much school.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2025
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“Shamefaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shamefaced. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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