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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

hangdog
    adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog
           and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric
           Linklater [syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced,
           shamed]
    2: frightened into submission or compliance

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hangdog \Hang"dog`\ (-d[o^]g`), n.
   A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hangdog \Hang"dog`\, a.
   Low; sneaking; ashamed.
   [1913 Webster]

         The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
         look.                                    --Thackeray.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for hangdog:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abashed, abject, ashamed, backscratching, beggarly, blushing, bootlicking, chagrined, chapfallen, cowering, crawling, crestfallen, cringing, crouching, crushed, embarrassed, fawning, flattering, footlicking, groveling, humbled, humiliated, ingratiating, mealymouthed, mortified, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, out of countenance, parasitic, prostrate, red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sniveling, sponging, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling

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