shamefaced

  • 101rueful — Synonyms and related words: addicted, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, ashamed, bitter, bleak, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing,… …

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  • 102self-conscious — Synonyms and related words: affected, anxious, apprehensive, artificial, awkward, bashful, confused, conscious, coy, demure, diffident, embarrassed, exhibitionist, formal, hesitant, ill at ease, inarticulate, insecure, mannered, modest, mousy,… …

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  • 103shamed — Synonyms and related words: abashed, ashamed, at a discount, blushing, chagrined, chapfallen, crestfallen, crushed, discredited, disgraced, embarrassed, hangdog, humbled, humiliated, in Dutch, in bad, in bad odor, in bad repute, in discredit, in… …

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  • 104shameful — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, ashamed, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, chastening, cheap, conscience smitten, conscience stricken,… …

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  • 105sheepish — Synonyms and related words: abject, amenable, apologetic, asinine, blushful, blushing, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, compliant, contrite, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, docile, embarrassed, equestrian, equine, flushed, goatish, goatlike, hircine,… …

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  • 106shy — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonic, about the bush, afraid, agnostic, apprehensive, around the bush, arrested, averse, avert, avoid, back down, backhanded, backward, balance, balk, bankrupt in, bare of, bashful, be startled, bear off, beat… …

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  • 107skittish — Synonyms and related words: agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, animated, antic, bashful, capersome, changeable, coltish, combustible, confused, conscious, coquettish, cowardly, coy, delicate, demure, diffident, dizzy, edgy, emotional, emotionally… …

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  • 108sorry — Synonyms and related words: abject, apologetic, ashamed, bad, base, base minded, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, common, compunctious, conscience smitten, conscience stricken, contemptible, contrite, crummy,… …

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  • 109stammering — Synonyms and related words: balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating,… …

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  • 110timid — Synonyms and related words: afraid, apprehensive, bashful, cautious, chicken, chickenhearted, confused, conscious, coward, cowardly, cowed, coy, craven, daunted, demure, demurring, diffident, dismayed, fainthearted, faltering, fearful, fearing,… …

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