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Hangdog

adjective

Showing a sense of guilt. Synonyms: guilty, shamed, shamefaced. "The hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"

Frightened into submission or compliance.

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"Hangdog" Quotes from Famous Books

... fellow was a wrong 'un, all along," were the first words that filtered to the girl's consciousness as she stood. "But I didn't think he was responsible for that card trick, I must say. Young Bathurst looked so abominably hangdog." ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... been accused of the robbery was now presented by the secretary. He formed a marked contrast to his partner,—being tall, dark and slender, with a hangdog ...

— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry

... considered. The feast-day wouldn't do. The crowd would be greatest then, and hardest to handle. Back and forth they brew their scheme. Then a knock at the door. Startled, they look alertly up to know who this intruder may be. The door is opened. In steps a man with a hangdog, guilty, but determined look. It is one of the men they have seen with Jesus! What can this mean? He glances furtively from one ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... were outwardly civil enough, but they rarely spoke to him of their own accord, and sometimes they would break off in a conversation if he appeared interested. Desmond had put this down to the man's temper; he was a sullen fellow, with a perpetually hangdog look, occasionally breaking out in paroxysms of violence which cost him many a scourging from the overseer's merciless rattan. But the attitude of his fellow prisoner was more easily explained if the Babu's hint was well founded. They ...

— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... ma'am. I 'ope I didn't presume to suggest such a thing"; and with a hangdog air Hempel prepared ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

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