[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hangdog \hang"dog`\ -do^g`, n.
   a base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hangdog \hang"dog`\, a.
   low; sneaking; ashamed.
   1913 webster

         the poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog
         look.                                    --thackeray.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hangdog
     adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
            shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- eric
            linklater syn: guilty, shamefaced, shamed
     2: frightened into submission or compliance syn: browbeaten,
         bullied, cowed, intimidated
see also:
guilty shamefaced shamed browbeaten bullied cowed 
intimidated 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 moby thesaurus words for "hangdog":
   abashed, abject, ashamed, backscratching, beggarly, blushing,
   bootlicking, chagrined, chapfallen, cowering, crawling,
   crestfallen, cringing, crouching, crushed, embarrassed, fawning,
   flattering, footlicking, groveling, humbled, humiliated,
   ingratiating, mealymouthed, mortified, obeisant, obsequious,
   on bended knee, out of countenance, parasitic, prostrate,
   red-faced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sniveling, sponging,
   sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish,
   truckling

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