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shamefacedly


  • r  in a shamefaced manner
    quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies

  • Late last year, officials of Bill Clinton's legal-defense fund rather shamefacedly disclosed that they had returned a donation of more than $600,000 from the followers of the .
  • The telephone company is shamefacedly rushing a corrected directory into print because Storke found a few errors in a new edition.
  • Fans send Rowling wands and quills by the bushel, but she admits, a bit shamefacedly, that she never actually uses them and that the wands go straight to her oldest daughter .
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  • Colette Avital in Ha'aretz
    I stand shamefacedly before people who have been waiting for seven years for us to return the money they deserve, and none of them has received anything yet,said MK Colette Avital, who headed the parliamentary inquiry committee.
  • Howard Hunt in Bloomberg
    In his semi-fictional autobiography, "Give Us This Day," Hunt wrote: "The Kennedy administration yielded Castro all the excuse he needed to gain a tighter grip on the island of Jose Marti, then moved shamefacedly into the shadows and hoped...

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