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Meanings of hangdog air in English
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Usage of hangdog air in English
1
The man had the nervous, hangdog air that people got working around hoppers.
2
It had lost its sense of cheerful riot, and wore a chastened, hangdog air.
3
Tom Gray looked immensely relieved, Grace thought, in spite of his crestfallen, hangdog air.
4
I had not wanted to show him any emotion beyond contempt, but his hangdog air provoked me beyond endurance.
5
I 'ope I didn't presume to suggest such a thing; and with a hangdog air Hempel prepared to slink away.