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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



... 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


Words linked to "Hangdog" :   ashamed, shamefaced, afraid


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