shamefaced Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite extremely modest or shy
    • cheerfully bearing reproaches but shamefaced at praise"- H.O.Taylor
  2. adjective satellite showing a sense of shame
    sheepish.
  3. adjective satellite showing a sense of guilt
    hangdog; guilty; shamed.
    • a guilty look
    • the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater

WordNet

Shame"faced` adjective
Etymology
For shamefast; AS. scamfst. See Shame, n., and Fast firm.
Definitions
  1. Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.
    Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise. Dryden.
    ✍ Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face, have brought it to its present orthography. Trench. -- Shame"faced, adv. -- Shame"faced`ness, n.

Webster 1913