Shamefaced
Shamefaced , adjective
[For shamefast; Anglo-Saxon scamfaest. See Shame, n., and Fast firm.]
Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.
Your shamefaced virtue shunned the people's prise.
Shamefaced was once shamefast, shamefacedness was shamefastness, like steadfast and steadfastness; but the ordinary manifestations of shame being by the face, have brought it to its present orthography. Trench.