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# shamefaced

«shamefaced» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling ashamed and embarrassed, and showing it in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#x1)
- The boys were shamefaced after they lost the game. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shamefaced» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shamefaced/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.