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Red-faced   /rɛd-feɪst/   Listen
Red-faced

adjective
1.
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion.  Synonyms: crimson, flushed, red, reddened.  "Turned red from exertion" , "With puffy reddened eyes" , "Red-faced and violent" , "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
2.
Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.  Synonyms: blushful, blushing.  "Her blushful beau" , "Was red-faced with anger"






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"Red-faced" Quotes from Famous Books



... neck of a stout red-faced man, who murmured all the time of the embrace, "Tut, lassie. Think shame, lassie!" and dabbed at his eyes and blew his nose with a bandanna handkerchief with the noise ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett

... the usual visitors from calling at the lodge to pay—as they expressed it, their duty—all, that is, except Meidanov, who promptly grew dejected and sulky when he had not an opportunity of being enthusiastic. Byelovzorov sat sullen and red-faced in a corner, buttoned up to the throat; on the refined face of Malevsky there flickered continually an evil smile; he had really fallen into disfavour with Zinaida, and waited with special assiduity on the ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

... and snooped, and his smile grew larger and larger and sweeter and sweeter, until—dare I say it!—a low smooth chuckle, all but noiseless, rippled the heavy cheeks of the poet; and, raising his eyes, he beheld a stocky, fashionably-dressed and red-faced man of forty intently eying him. The man ...
— Iole • Robert W. Chambers

... know Phil Beamish of the 3th, sir?" said a tall, red-faced, red-whiskered, well-looking gentleman, who bore no slight ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 1 • Charles James Lever

... he could have found it in his heart to tell everything about Lady Mason to his wife, asking her counsel as to what he should do with reference to that marriage. Could he have done so, all would have been well; but this was not possible while that red-faced lump of a woman from Red Lion Square sat in ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope


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