hangdog
/ˈhaŋdɒɡ
/adjective
Having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced: the hangdog look of a condemned man...
- McAvoy is sitting in the Soho Hotel sipping lime and soda and apologising for his hangdog appearance.
- The air of defeat clings to this hangdog bear from the get-go.
- 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.
Synonyms
shamefaced, ashamed, guilty-looking, sheepish, abashed, abject, cowed, cringing, downcast, crestfallen, woebegone, disconsolate, embarrassed, uncomfortable;
browbeaten, defeated, intimidated, wretched
- Corregidor
- correlate
- correlation
- correlational
- correlation coefficient
- correlative
- correlatively
- correlativity
- correspond
- correspondence
- correspondence college
- correspondence column
- correspondence course
- correspondence principle
- correspondence school
- correspondence theory
- correspondent
- corresponding
- corresponding angles
- correspondingly
- corresponding member
- corrida
- corrido
- corridor
- corridor of uncertainty