shamefaced
[adjective]
Synonyms: embarrassed, abashed, ashamed, humiliated, mortified, red-faced, sheepish

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English Thesaurus: ashamed, humiliated, mortified, shamefaced, feel guilty, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

shame‧faced /ˌʃeɪmˈfeɪst◂/ adjective
[Language: Old English; Origin: scamfæst, from scamu ( ⇒ shame¹) + fæst 'fixed'; influenced by face]
if someone is shamefaced, they look and feel ashamed because they have done something wrong or they have behaved badly:
Conner looked a little shamefaced.
shamefaced smile/grin
—shamefacedly /-ˈfeɪsədli, -ˈfeɪsɪdli/ adverb

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

ashamed [not before noun] feeling very sorry and embarrassed because of something you have done, or someone connected with you has done:
You should be ashamed of yourself.
She felt deeply ashamed of her son’s behaviour.
humiliated [not before noun] very ashamed and upset, because someone has made you look weak or stupid, especially in front of other people:
I came out of the class feeling humiliated.
mortified /ˈmɔːtəfaɪd, ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd $ ˈmɔːr-/ extremely ashamed and embarrassed, especially about something you have done accidentally:
She’ll be mortified when she realizes her mistake.
a mortified expression
shamefaced showing by the expression on your face that you are ashamed about something:
Paul came into my office looking shamefaced and apologized for what he had done.
feel guilty (also feel bad especially spoken) to feel worried and unhappy because you know that you have done something wrong. Feel bad is more informal than feel guilty:
He felt guilty about lying to his parents.
I felt bad about letting the team down.
lose face to lose people’s respect for you, especially by doing something that makes you look weak or stupid in front of other people:
He feels he’ll lose face if he admits to his staff that he was wrong.

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