hangdog
noun 1adj 1verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
A base, degraded person.
adj
1
Low; sneaking; ashamed.
The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.
verb
1
To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner.
With a twenty-one to three victory, Pinewood high-stepped it off the field while our Falcons hangdogged their way to the locker room.
Just a few stragglers left hangdogging around, latchkey types with no place to be, cutting up in the dim and bleachered gym perimeter.
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