Meanings of look shamefaced in English

Men milling around him had the decency to look shamefaced in their defiance, and none had the nerve to ignore their chief.

I lost my temper with her, in fact.' He looked shamefaced.

Up to that point Minerva had hung back looking shamefaced.

Even the one-foot leprechaun on the counter looks shamefaced.

It was of his seeking I could see, for the poor girl looked shamefaced and weary enough.

Harry Edgham looked shamefaced and guilty.

"Well, sister," he said, with pleasant interrogation, although he still looked shamefaced.

The members of the crew, who had become panic-stricken when the helpless ship encountered the iceberg, paused and looked shamefaced.

The boys all looked shamefaced as they got into the boat, and two sailors assisted the half-frozen professor into it.

Natasha shrugged, looking shamefaced.

The cardinal looks shamefaced.

The other officers looked shamefaced, too, as if the lecture were somehow contagious, or as if Rickman had made them all look bad.

Shadow was scanning the minutes of winter 1878 when Chad Mulligan knocked and entered, looking shamefaced, like a child bringing home a bad report card.