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How to use hangdog in a sentence

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He noticed the grim, tight set of the older man's mouth, the hangdog cant of the younger's head, and Black fidgeting nervously beside.
McAvoy is sitting in the Soho Hotel sipping lime and soda and apologising for his hangdog appearance.
With her hangdog look and her laconic sourness, de la Tour transforms a small part into a droll star turn.
The sheepish façade, meanwhile, had been swallowed whole by the hangdog look.
There was a time when, mocked for his diminutive stature and his hangdog looks, you wouldn't have bet heavily on his future!
His face is fuller, and he has almost lost the hangdog woefulness of his youth — almost, but not quite, which turns out to be a good thing.
It is unfortunate, but appropriate, given his world-weary, hangdog demeanour, that one of his last films was titled The Sad Sack.
Yet at second glance, the run-down hangdog air epitomises the disappointment of the past 20 years.
He looked more hangdog than Droopy lolloping around the Old Course that he not once but twice brought to its knees.
Unfortunately, he's a runaway freight train of creativity, with no one in the brake room to slow down his torrent of hangdog, peculiarly American balladry.
So when Zhu appeared on Japanese TV recently, with a hangdog look, speaking of his difficulties, questions surfaced as to whether the reform czar was in trouble again.
The air of defeat clings to this hangdog bear from the get-go.
He was renowned for his violent pedigree, although few people other than militants would have recognized his broad, hangdog face.
While it's admittedly now associated with all sorts of marvelous memories and history, it's also taken on the hangdog vibe of the perpetually neglected and unloved.
With his shaggy, hangdog look and mild, unflappable demeanor, Mr. Gertten easily solicits empathy for his plight.
A powerful tale of hangdog desperados bound by a code of honor, rated as one of the all-time greatest Westerns.
No wonder Alex has a hangdog look about him.
Examples from Classical Literature
Tom Gray looked immensely relieved, Grace thought, in spite of his crestfallen, hangdog air.
A small, short, hangdog, bloodshot-eyed man, he had been, my grandmother said, a full-blooded Oyez town crier but had come down in the world.
They say he couldn't look such a miserable, hangdog wretch for nothing.
Jim Caviezel plays John Sullivan, a hangdog New York cop who lost his firefighter father, Frank, in a warehouse blaze 30 years ago.
I'll beat this light about that hangdog face of yours, and rouse the neighbourhood besides, if you detain me,' said the blind man.
To that hangdog creature might fall the task of driving Betty home!
It had lost its sense of cheerful riot, and wore a chastened, hangdog air.
Perpetual hangdog Paul Giamatti lends his droopy features to a disappointing recession drama.
Rea is at his charming, hangdog best here, though, and Harris, who has been on a cinematic roll in recent years, is equally fine.
Tommy McLean had a hangdog look after failing to sign Swede Magnus Kehlstedt.
Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, 'Well, Mrs.
How unlike alas the hangdog look of a republican official, who, as the servant of the people, feels himself less than the least, and below the lowest of his masters.
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