0 in a way that is awkward and embarrassed, or ashamed :
He held the glass between his hands, staring shamefacedly down at it.
A little shamefacedly, Benedict laughed, his colour heightened.
I fear that, shamefacedly though we may have to do it, the correct decision is for the west now to withdraw.
I have seen the lovely fresh water of the streams transformed into sluggishly moving rivers, which go their way shamefacedly through the towns.
It does not mean, as the rate-capping campaign shamefacedly contends, that everybody will be hurt if the order goes through.
I have to admit shamefacedly that that is exactly the situation that we have in this country.
It seeps its way rather shamefacedly along by-ways through the town, until it comes out on the other side.
