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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

... 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 ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... as these two worthies sneaked into his tent, each with a hangdog expression on his face. "Red" Larry had a black eye, while Bad Eye's nose appeared to have listed to ...

— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... to enter unless asked. Among them was a thin, middle-aged Natchez Indian, whose extraordinary, feline face had won for him the name of The Cat. Henry particularly observed this man, whose manner was in accordance with his appearance and name. Like those they had seen in the canoes he had a hangdog, shiftless look, different from the bold warrior of the ...

— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler

... 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 ...

— Quiet Talks about Jesus • S. D. Gordon

... 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 and ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... 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 ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland