Shamefacedly, we had to report to the management—simply because an official had said that according to his watch we had left our work two minutes before time.
We always hesitate at the point when we are asked to participate in some new way forward, and then join belatedly, rather shamefacedly, dragging our feet at a late stage.
Certainly they exacerbate social divisions, for the stigma of admitting poverty, which, in our society, in effect, means admitting failure, makes people shamefacedly feel second-class citizens.
Why have they gone to ground so shamefacedly?
It seeps its way rather shamefacedly along by-ways through the town, until it comes out on the other side.
I have to admit shamefacedly that that is exactly the situation that we have in this country.
It does not mean, as the rate-capping campaign shamefacedly contends, that everybody will be hurt if the order goes through.
I have seen the lovely fresh water of the streams transformed into sluggishly moving rivers, which go their way shamefacedly through the towns.
