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red-faced

[red-feyst]

adjective

  1. having a red face.

  2. blushing or flushed with embarrassment, anger, resentment, or the like.



red-faced

/ ˌrɛdˈfeɪsɪdlɪ, -ˈfeɪstlɪ /

adjective

  1. flushed with embarrassment or anger

  2. having a florid complexion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • red-facedly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of red-faced1

First recorded in 1570–80
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The feelings of being sweaty, red-faced and kind of awkward is very familiar to me.

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I finally did make it to the finish line, panting and red-faced.

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A workman was left red-faced after his daughter's bright pink mobile phone became frozen within a newly formed ice rink.

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Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra.

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Justice officials in Spain have been left red-faced after accidentally releasing a billionaire Dutch drug lord from prison in a bureaucratic mix-up.

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