Example sentences for: hangdog

How can you use “hangdog” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Felicity has become hangdog and whiny.

  • In The Luck of the Bodkins , P.G. Wodehouse remarked on the ...look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French....

  • Where Lee Marvin in Point Blank was an automaton, Gibson oscillates between bug-eyed monomania and hangdog embarrassment.

  • There's a kind of dignity in Lehrer's plodding reluctance to opine, in his hangdog humility, in his desire to serve as moderator rather than interrogator.

  • They lurk outside bars and restaurants begging change from passers-by, flashing curled lips and hangdog stares, as precious in their own way as any amateur anthropologist taking her first cautious steps east of First Avenue in breathless anticipation of a walk on the wild side.


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