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- 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 .