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Example sentences for "hangdog"

Lexicographically close words:
haner; hang; hangar; hangars; hangd; hange; hanged; hangel; hangen; hanger
  1. BLOOM: (Murmurs with hangdog meekness glum) That bit about the laughing witch hand in hand I take exception to, if I may.

  2. Be hanged for a murderous-looking rogue, a lousy thief, a wastrel and a hangdog knave!

  3. The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.

  4. Did the cub's hangdog of a father not offer a thousand pounds for my head on the end of a pikestaff?

  5. Tis the ship o' that hangdog of a New England captain!

  6. The look in Trenwith's eyes, and the sheepish, hangdog expression of his whole face made Eleanor gasp.

  7. Jake's hangdog look showed that to be true, although he still maintained his obstinate silence.

  8. I thank Heaven you have at last brought a stranger to my hearing, not your hangdog confederates.

  9. All I have seen are very hangdog fellows," and Ulla shuddered.

  10. How can thy traffic with the hangdog executioner be of avail to serve me, or to help my servant Bonthron?

  11. But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!

  12. Evan flung up his hangdog head in sudden desperation.

  13. And looking at their hangdog faces you would have said, "Such a lot of sheep-thieves!

  14. The lanceros did not understand this sudden disappearance, and went off with a hangdog air.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hangdog" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abashed; abject; ashamed; beggarly; chagrined; chapfallen; crawling; crestfallen; crushed; embarrassed; fawning; flattering; groveling; hangdog; humbled; humiliated; ingratiating; mortified; obsequious; parasitic; prostrate; shamed; shamefaced; sniveling; sponging; sycophantic; truckling; underhand