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# shamefaced

adjective

«shamefaced» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Shamefaced means feeling ashamed and embarrassed, and showing it in the face or manner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#m1)

### In the lessons

a character who has done wrong, or been shown up, and looks down and cannot meet others' eyes

### Examples

- She stood shamefaced, unable to reply. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#x1)
- The boys were shamefaced after they lost the game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#x2)
- When they came back they were so shamefaced they hardly dared look up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shamefaced» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shamefaced» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shamefaced.html) on Mova free.