red-faced

adjective more red-faced · most red-faced · redfaced

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face. I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.
2. broadly embarrassed A red-faced John edged his way quietly out of the room.
3. broadly inebriate Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you.
4. broadly angry The customer gave a red-faced account of the argument with the waiter.
5. broadly flustered "I can't for the life of me think where I left the tickets!", she cried out, red-faced.
6. broadly exhausted He collapsed, red-faced from the effort, against the door jamb.