hangdog

How To Use hangdog In A Sentence

• So you can scoff and snicker all you like at the shaggy, hangdog 27-year-old next door dressed in a baggy college sweatshirt and cargo shorts, taking empty pizza boxes and beer bottles to the dumpster. Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude
• In becoming that figure, he also brought out the essential weakness of official Unionism, its demoralised passivity, its sentimental traditionalism, its dearth of ideas, its hangdog lack of creative energy.
• The hangdog expression comes from her droopy eyebrow patches and downturned mouth. The Sun
• He showed that hangdog look of someone who feels defeated. Christianity Today
• The lugubrious Scouser does his best, but who can blame him for that hangdog expression, with Coventry City languishing in the wrong half of the table and the shares that once made him a multi-millionaire delisted by the Stock Exchange?
• It wasn't long before Paul shuffled up to me, hangdog.
• Even if you're not familiar with the name, you'd recognise the hangdog features; as well as turning up in a fair few A-Team episodes, Lewis Sr also played Clint Eastwood's CB buddie Orville in Any Which Way But Loose.
• But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this! The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
• As in, if you've sent me a dozen emails in the past month, please don't write me a thirteenth sounding all hangdog because I've only answered one or two. "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
• These pooches all have hangdog expressions for a good reason. The Sun