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Definition of "red-faced" []

  • Embarrassed: "They were caught red-handed, and now they are red-faced” ( Margaret Thatcher). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "red-faced" in a sentence
  • "“When I went into the room he looked like he was back from the OK Corral—red-faced, very tired, exhausted.”"
  • "This is double-talk, hypocrisy, and red-faced lying."
  • "In the videos of his from the peak of his fame, he is a red-faced eruption of testosterone, screaming at the camera in long Charlie Sheen-style soliloquies of inspired abuse."