Shamefaced Definition

shāmfāst
shame-faced
adjective
Very modest, bashful, or shy.
Webster's New World
Showing a feeling of shame or embarrassment; ashamed.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Shamefaced

  • Alteration (due to folk etymology) of shamefast, from Middle English schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sceamfæst, scamfæst (“bashful, shy, modest", literally “firm or fast in modesty or shame"), equivalent to shame +"Ž fast.

    From Wiktionary

  • By folk etymology from obsolete shamefast bashful, ashamed from Middle English from Old English sceamfæst sceamu shame fæst fixed fast1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shamefaced Sentence Examples

  • This really is a road legal race car, with performance statistics which leave all of the cars in our Supercar Competition rather shamefaced.

  • Finally, with a shamefaced apology for his weakness, he rose once more.

  • What sportsmen! and as if scorning to say more to the frightened and shamefaced count, he lashed the heaving flanks of his sweating chestnut gelding with all the anger the count had aroused and flew off after the hounds.

  • Daniel had the grace to look shamefaced - for a fraction of a second.

  • The hairs tied in the knot hurt Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile.

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