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