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What does red-faced mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word red-faced? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning. Having a face that is the color red.
  2. With a red face; flushed, due to emotional or physical causes.
    1. (by extension) embarrassed
    2. (by extension) inebriate
    3. (by extension) angry
    4. (by extension) flustered
    5. (by extension) exhausted
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A few minutes later he returned, red-faced, to check which wine I had ordered.
Royal Mail bosses were left red-faced after two letters apologising about a customer's missing mail were lost in the post.
Police chiefs were red-faced yesterday after their road safety trailer rolled backwards down a hill and smashed into a shop.
A red-faced dad accidentally threw away his wife's family heirlooms and found them after hours rummaging through a rubbish dump!
That was Thomas, I realised, looking over the plump, red-faced infant spread out uncomfortably all over my chair.
Sarah has emptied a bucket of blocks in front of the television and Ruth is on her back on the floor, red-faced, screaming.

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