Red-faced

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face.

    "I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market."

  2. 2
    With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.; embarrassed broadly

    "A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room."

  3. 3
    With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.; inebriate broadly

    "Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you."

  4. 4
    With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.; angry broadly

    "The customer gave a red-faced account of the argument with the waiter."

  5. 5
    With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.; flustered broadly

    ""I can't for the life of me think where I left the tickets!", she cried out, red-faced."

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  1. 6
    With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.; exhausted broadly

    "He collapsed, red-faced from the effort, against the door jamb."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion wordnet
  2. 2
    having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset wordnet

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