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Meanings of hangdog expression in English

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Usage of hangdog expression in English
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Hildie looked from the closing door to Elizabeth with her hangdog expression.
Her mother's hope
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Her eyes were red from crying and she had a hangdog expression.
Under orders
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He turned to Daria with a hangdog expression on his face.
Beneath a southern sky
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I am hard-faced as I look at him, and I despise his hangdog expression.
The red queen
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He walked toward me and put on a hangdog expression.
With friends like these
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Beneath his hangdog expression, Larry has a million-dollar smile when he lays it on.
Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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A man with thinning hair, a tan, and a faintly hangdog expression filled the frame.
American Gods
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With his hangdog expression, he bore a striking resemblance to the cartoon character Droopy Dog.
The missing
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Willie looked at her across the table with a morose hangdog expression on his long face.
The skin trade
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I put on my best hangdog expression.
The Name of the Wind
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As soon as I got in there, Nils looked at me with the most pitiful, hangdog expression ever.
Assholes finish first
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He did a wonderful hangdog expression.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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It could be his hangdog expression.
The Guardian
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Your hangdog expression as one hand tapped the other was precisely that of someone who'd just kicked a goal.
The Guardian
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This one is called Jitters and the owner is Bradley, played by Greg Kinnear with a trademark hangdog expression.
The Irish Times
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Mr. Sparling's eyes twinkled as these two worthies sneaked into his tent, each with a hangdog expression on his face.
The Circus Boys Across the Continent; Or, Winning New Laurels on...
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