hangdog Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite showing a sense of guilt
    shamefaced; guilty; shamed.
    • a guilty look
    • the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
  2. adjective satellite frightened into submission or compliance

WordNet

Hang"dog`
Definitions
  1. , Low; sneaking; ashamed.
    The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look. Thackeray.

Webster 1913