Adjective : He always went about with a hangdog look. ,He sneaked out of the room with a hangdog expression. From Dictionary.com.
I grinned at familiar, hangdog faces in the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Along Came a Spider]
His hangdog face is immobile, but his voice is bitter. From Wordnik.com. [Stempel's Revolution] Reference
See those hangdog-looking fellows slouching before us?. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
And his partner so thin and tall, with a hangdog face. From Wordnik.com. [In a Strange City]
Then he was standing in front of her, hangdog and shy. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
"I've come to beg pardon," I said, looking a bit hangdog. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman]
I assumed my best hangdog attitude and turned to face him. From Wordnik.com. [Myth Conceptions]
He shook his head, a hangdog expression still on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Desire]
No more hangdog schlepping at Yokes 24-Hour Market for him. From Wordnik.com. [Luna's Future Is His Xmas Present] Reference
“I'm sorry; you know how sorry I am,” He answers, hangdog. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
Even over the telephone, the hangdog look of Lasko was visible. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
Come, a hangdog look means a divided mind, and I need your wits. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Bob stood there for a moment, hangdog, like he'd lost his best friend. From Wordnik.com. [Murder by Six]
They say he couldn't look such a miserable, hangdog wretch for nothing. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Ahead is the park, the playground, the lopsided seesaw, hangdog swings. From Wordnik.com. [There They Are! Here They Come!] Reference
Then there was the hangdog expression, the dry and reserved interviews. From Wordnik.com. [Why Tony Adams hopes to master the art of reinvention] Reference
Deets was looking hangdog, and the Spettle boy could only shake his head. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Ahead is the park, the playground, the lopsided seesaw, hangdog swings. From Wordnik.com. [There They Are! Here They Come!] Reference
Gary had seen him use this hangdog look a thousand times with his customers. From Wordnik.com. [Along Came a Spider]
His hangdog expression gave me a pain in the left ventricle that I couldn't ignore. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
He carried his head with a hangdog lurch -- his heavy jaw was rough with stubble beard. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Tom Gray looked immensely relieved, Grace thought, in spite of his crestfallen, hangdog air. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Perhaps Edwards was tired, but he sounded so hangdog that Imus asked, "Are you up for this?". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Bronze: James Wolcott] Reference
What she saw was a rather sad-looking specimen only half-stoned, looking hangdog and ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
Reilly gave her a hangdog expression and coyly moaned, "My love life's in the Dumpster, Marlena.". From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
She pulled me to the door as Sadd stood looking properly hangdog and Henry reached for the bourbon. From Wordnik.com. [Working Murder]
They cluster in Hyde Park, are politely dispersed by the police, and feel vindicated if a little hangdog. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Now he knew where the term "hangdog expression" had come from, because Cleo wore it all over her furry face. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]
He straightened, dropping the slightly disreputable, hangdog manner, then reached for his body shield controls. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
Every week he trimmed his fingernails; every day or so, with a flush and a hangdog look, he drenched himself with perfume. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Which they would have to do very soon, as he reminded them at every chance, unmoved by George's hangdog expression at the thought. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Dr. Smathers, had a hangdog expression on his pudgy face and had begun drumming his fingers in a staccato tattoo on his round belly. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
The obligatory droopy-eared, hangdog-faced waiter appeared, like a pallbearer at a funeral, and stood silently awaiting their order. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
As voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, members of the Clinton campaign cast off the hangdog expressions they'd been wearing for weeks. From Wordnik.com. [She’s B-a-a-ck] Reference
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