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Hangdog expression
A hangdog expression is one where the person's showing their emotions very clearly, maybe a little too clearly for your liking. It's that mixture of misery and self-pity that is similar to a dog when it's trying to get something it wants but daren't take without permission.
you should alibi the expression
Please absolve what I aloof said or am about to say. This affable abnegation for uttering a profanity, obscenity, or boorishness was adopted from Yiddish about 1930 and became accepted anon thereafter. Learn added absolution my French. Learn more: excuse, expression, should