hangdog English

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What does hangdog mean?

hangdog

— adjective frightened into submission or compliance

— adjective (= guilty, shamefaced) showing a sense of guilt a guilty look the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy — Eric Linklater

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shamefaced

shamed

guilty

sordid

shoddy

shabby

mean

ashamed

wretched

woeful

woebegone

vulgar

vile

underhanded

underhand

trashy

stinky

sticky

sorry

sneaky

sneak

shady

scurvy

scurrilous

rueful

ropey

responsible

ratty

raffish

punk

piteous

perpetrator

perfidious

ornery

mortifying

mortified

miserable

lowdown

lowbred

low-minded

low

lousy

lewd

insidious

infelicitous

ignoble

execrable

embarrassed

deplorable

crestfallen