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hangdog
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hangdog has 2 senses
- hangdog(s = adj.all) guilty, shamed, shamefaced - showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"
- hangdog(s = adj.all) Array - frightened into submission or compliance; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
hangdog, n.
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. [1913 Webster]
hangdog, a.
Low; sneaking; ashamed. [1913 Webster]
"The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look."
[1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
hangdog
abashed, abject, ashamed, backscratching, beggarly, blushing, bootlicking, chagrined, chapfallen, cowering, crawling, crestfallen, cringing, crouching, crushed, embarrassed, fawning, flattering, footlicking, groveling, humbled, humiliated, ingratiating, mealymouthed, mortified, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, out of countenance, parasitic, prostrate, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sniveling, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling
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