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单词 shamefacedly
释义
shamefacedly
adverb
uk
/ˌʃeɪmˈfeɪst.li//ˌʃeɪmˈfeɪ.sɪd.li/us
/ˈʃeɪm.feɪst.li//ˌʃeɪmˈfeɪ.sɪd.li/
in a way that isawkwardandembarrassed, orashamed:
害羞地；惭愧地
Heunlockedthedoors, andregardedthemrathershamefacedly.他打开门锁，羞愧地看着他们。
He shamefacedlyconfessedhe hadinventedthewholestory.他羞愧地承认自己编造了整个故事。
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shamefaced
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  • Heheldtheglassbetween hishands,staringshamefacedly down at it.
  • "I'meverthecontrolfreak," shemumblesshamefacedly.
  • A little shamefacedly, Benedictlaughed, hiscolourheightened.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ashamed and embarrassed
  • abash
  • abashed
  • ashamed
  • awkward
  • awkwardly
  • egg
  • guiltiness
  • hangdog
  • have egg onyourfaceidiom
  • humbling
  • look
  • looksomeonein the eye/faceidiom
  • meet
  • mortifying
  • not know where to putyourselfidiom
  • pride
  • shamefaced
  • sheepish
  • squirm
  • swallowyourprideidiom
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(Definition ofshamefacedlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshamefacedly

shamefacedly
I fear that,shamefacedlythough we may have to do it, the correct decision is for the west now to withdraw.
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I have seen the lovely fresh water of the streams transformed into sluggishly moving rivers, which go their wayshamefacedlythrough the towns.
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It does not mean, as the rate-capping campaignshamefacedlycontends, that everybody will be hurt if the order goes through.
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I have to admitshamefacedlythat that is exactly the situation that we have in this country.
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It seeps its way rathershamefacedlyalong by-ways through the town, until it comes out on the other side.
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Why have they gone to ground soshamefacedly?
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Certainly they exacerbate social divisions, for the stigma of admitting poverty, which, in our society, in effect, means admitting failure, makes peopleshamefacedlyfeel second-class citizens.
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We always hesitate at the point when we are asked to participate in some new way forward, and then join belatedly, rathershamefacedly, dragging our feet at a late stage.
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Shamefacedly, we had to report to the management—simply because an official had said that according to his watch we had left our work two minutes before time.
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