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 →

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 →
• The boys were shamefaced after they lost the game. tree →
• When they came back they were so shamefaced they hardly dared look up. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shamefaced» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.