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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing a sense of guilt;
- Example: "a guilty look"
- Example: "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
[syn: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed]

2. frightened into submission or compliance; 



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]


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]


WordNet (r) 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