Shamefaced

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  • adjective. Indicative of shame; ashamed.
  • adjective. Extremely modest or shy; bashful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Modest; bashful; originally shamefast.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment
  • adjective. ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face.
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  • adjective. extremely modest or shy
  • adjective. showing a sense of shame
  • adjective. showing a sense of guilt
  • Word Usage
    "At the next station he helped her to drop through the opening she had entered, and called a shamefaced "good-by" after her in the dusk."
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    ashamed  modest  
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