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Definition of hangdog in English: hangdogadjectiveˈhaŋdɒɡˈhæŋˌdɔɡ Having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced. the hangdog look of a condemned man Example sentencesExamples - So when Zhu appeared on Japanese TV recently, with a hangdog look, speaking of his difficulties, questions surfaced as to whether the reform czar was in trouble again.
- The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
- McAvoy is sitting in the Soho Hotel sipping lime and soda and apologising for his hangdog appearance.
- Craig Michael's hangdog portrayal of the libertine and ill-starred artist for the most part manages to avoid suffering genius/nutcase clichés.
- It wasn't long before Paul shuffled up to me, hangdog.
- With their flat diagonal fringes and hangdog, metrosexual anguish, they're like a heavily diluted version of skater punks… who were just a diluted version of old school punks.
- Not realizing that calm and logic are anathema to the Hysterical Female, the Wronged Male, by his very hangdog air, serves only to lure the Hysterical Female into a near frenzy in her thwarted attempts for a screaming argument.
- Even if you're not familiar with the name, you'd recognise the hangdog features; as well as turning up in a fair few A-Team episodes, Lewis Sr also played Clint Eastwood's CB buddie Orville in Any Which Way But Loose.
- And besides, in the majority of scenes you can plainly see that many a bystander are crying with laughter at the sight of Bill Murray's hangdog expression, thus indicating that the amused bafflement is mutual.
- Cuomo's voice, too, has changed over the years, losing some of its hangdog kickability and gaining faint echoes of Roy Orbison's ruefulness, as ‘The Other Way’ hints.
- He's stocky with an expression so hangdog it makes Droopy look like he's had Botox; he also has a weird brushed - up hairline that gives the impression that a wee guy with spiky hair is standing directly behind him.
- Official Ballina's hangdog, carping approach was in marked contrast to the approach of organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Ballina street festival committee and Eamon Walsh's Fleadh initiative.
- ‘I like my prisoners to look a little hangdog,’ he said.
- The air of defeat clings to this hangdog bear from the get-go.
- At 11 pm, Kirsty Wark, who had appeared ill at ease throughout the preceding half hour, disappeared from Scottish screens to be replaced by the hangdog features of Newsnight Scotland's Gordon Brewer.
- In a voiceover, he remarks that it's not death he fears but a futile life, but, from his hangdog expression and recklessness toward his health, it's clear that he's already given into that feeling of futility.
- In what may have been a public relations tactic, Alam wore a hangdog facial expression throughout, in contrast with her confident appearance in newspaper pictures during the week.
- While it's admittedly now associated with all sorts of marvelous memories and history, it's also taken on the hangdog vibe of the perpetually neglected and unloved.
- In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
- The room was full of Iranians: the women in pretty and expensive shawls, with hard, glossy hair and carmine manicures; the men in expensive slip-on shoes, time-choking gold watches and hangdog eyes.
Synonyms shamefaced, ashamed, guilty-looking, sheepish, abashed, abject, cowed, cringing, downcast, crestfallen, woebegone, disconsolate, embarrassed, uncomfortable browbeaten, defeated, intimidated, wretched
Definition of hangdog in US English: hangdogadjectiveˈhæŋˌdɔɡˈhaNGˌdôɡ Having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced. the boys wore hangdog looks as the police marched them down the steps Example sentencesExamples - In what may have been a public relations tactic, Alam wore a hangdog facial expression throughout, in contrast with her confident appearance in newspaper pictures during the week.
- Not realizing that calm and logic are anathema to the Hysterical Female, the Wronged Male, by his very hangdog air, serves only to lure the Hysterical Female into a near frenzy in her thwarted attempts for a screaming argument.
- Official Ballina's hangdog, carping approach was in marked contrast to the approach of organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Ballina street festival committee and Eamon Walsh's Fleadh initiative.
- With their flat diagonal fringes and hangdog, metrosexual anguish, they're like a heavily diluted version of skater punks… who were just a diluted version of old school punks.
- Even if you're not familiar with the name, you'd recognise the hangdog features; as well as turning up in a fair few A-Team episodes, Lewis Sr also played Clint Eastwood's CB buddie Orville in Any Which Way But Loose.
- The room was full of Iranians: the women in pretty and expensive shawls, with hard, glossy hair and carmine manicures; the men in expensive slip-on shoes, time-choking gold watches and hangdog eyes.
- It wasn't long before Paul shuffled up to me, hangdog.
- McAvoy is sitting in the Soho Hotel sipping lime and soda and apologising for his hangdog appearance.
- ‘I like my prisoners to look a little hangdog,’ he said.
- Cuomo's voice, too, has changed over the years, losing some of its hangdog kickability and gaining faint echoes of Roy Orbison's ruefulness, as ‘The Other Way’ hints.
- The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
- At 11 pm, Kirsty Wark, who had appeared ill at ease throughout the preceding half hour, disappeared from Scottish screens to be replaced by the hangdog features of Newsnight Scotland's Gordon Brewer.
- He's stocky with an expression so hangdog it makes Droopy look like he's had Botox; he also has a weird brushed - up hairline that gives the impression that a wee guy with spiky hair is standing directly behind him.
- In a voiceover, he remarks that it's not death he fears but a futile life, but, from his hangdog expression and recklessness toward his health, it's clear that he's already given into that feeling of futility.
- And besides, in the majority of scenes you can plainly see that many a bystander are crying with laughter at the sight of Bill Murray's hangdog expression, thus indicating that the amused bafflement is mutual.
- So when Zhu appeared on Japanese TV recently, with a hangdog look, speaking of his difficulties, questions surfaced as to whether the reform czar was in trouble again.
- While it's admittedly now associated with all sorts of marvelous memories and history, it's also taken on the hangdog vibe of the perpetually neglected and unloved.
- The air of defeat clings to this hangdog bear from the get-go.
- Craig Michael's hangdog portrayal of the libertine and ill-starred artist for the most part manages to avoid suffering genius/nutcase clichés.
- In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
Synonyms shamefaced, ashamed, guilty-looking, sheepish, abashed, abject, cowed, cringing, downcast, crestfallen, woebegone, disconsolate, embarrassed, uncomfortable
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