The man had the nervous, hangdog air that people got working around hoppers.

It had lost its sense of cheerful riot, and wore a chastened, hangdog air.

Tom Gray looked immensely relieved, Grace thought, in spite of his crestfallen, hangdog air.

I had not wanted to show him any emotion beyond contempt, but his hangdog air provoked me beyond endurance.

I 'ope I didn't presume to suggest such a thing; and with a hangdog air Hempel prepared to slink away.