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Hangdog

adjective
1.
Showing a sense of guilt.  Synonyms: guilty, shamed, shamefaced.  "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"
2.
Frightened into submission or compliance.





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"Hangdog" Quotes from Famous Books



... To judge by the hangdog expression of the said Silas as he came forward to greet his guest at the door of the Ritz, the success attending his wife's manoeuvres had not inspired him with any particular joy. Cornelia thought he looked more henpecked ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... "is about one of the hired men we had last winter, whose name was Jacobs. He was a cunning fellow, with a hangdog look, and a great cleverness at stealing farm produce from father on the sly, and selling it. Father knew perfectly well what he was doing, and was wondering what would be the best way to deal with him, when one day something happened that brought ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... now a tail and slouchily dressed man of thirty-two or -three; his face still handsome in a certain dark, cleanly cut style, but he wore a surly loo'k and lounged along in a sort of hangdog style, in greasy overalls ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland


Words linked to "Hangdog" :   afraid, ashamed


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