hangdog vs red-faced

hangdog

adj
  • Low; sneaking; ashamed. 

noun
  • A base, degraded person. 

verb
  • To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner. 

red-faced

adj
  • embarrassed 

  • angry 

  • flustered 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, face. 

  • inebriate 

  • exhausted 

How often have the words hangdog and red-faced occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )