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red-faced
[ red-feyst ]
adjective
- having a red face.
- blushing or flushed with embarrassment, anger, resentment, or the like.
red-faced
/ ˌrɛdˈfeɪsɪdlɪ; -ˈfeɪstlɪ /
adjective
- flushed with embarrassment or anger
- having a florid complexion
Derived Forms
- red-facedly, adverb
Other Words From
- red-fac·ed·ly [red, -, fey, -sid-lee, -, feyst, -lee], adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of red-faced1
Example Sentences
A workman was left red-faced after his daughter's bright pink mobile phone became frozen within a newly formed ice rink.
Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra.
Justice officials in Spain have been left red-faced after accidentally releasing a billionaire Dutch drug lord from prison in a bureaucratic mix-up.
The Chargers went from being red-faced to doing an about-face Saturday night and making life for the Buffalo Bills very uncomfortable before falling 24-22 at SoFi Stadium.
So here they are, playing for an interim coach and an interim general manager, trying to slow a skid of five losses in six games and coming off one of the NFL’s all-time red-faced performances.
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