Difference between Afraid and Hangdog

AFRAID vs HANGDOG: NOUN

Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness
Feeling worry or concern or insecurity
Filled with fear; frightened.
Filled with regret or concern. Used especially to soften an unpleasant statement.
Regretful, sorry
Filled with fear or apprehension
Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement

Impressed with fear or apprehension; fearful: followed by of before the object of fear, where that is not an infinitive: as, to be afraid of death; I am afraid to go.
Synonyms Afraid, Frightened, Terrified, timid, shy, apprehensive, troubled, suspicious, distrustful. Afraid expresses a less degree of fear than frightened or terrified, which describe outward states. In colloquial language, I am afraid is often nearly equivalent to I suspect, I am inclined to think, or the like, and is regularly used as a kind of polite introduction to a correction, objection, etc., or to make a statement sound less positive: as, I am afraid you are wrong; I am afraid that argument won't hold.
Filled with regret or concern

Of or pertaining to such a person; having a base or sneaking appearance: as, a hangdog look or gait.

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Lugubrious, Forlorn, Careworn, Deadpan, Morose, Sullen, Bullied, Intimidated, Guilty, Afraid, Shamed, Ashamed, Cowed, Browbeaten, Shamefaced

Horrified, Appalled, Shocked, Panicked, Disinclined, Cowed, Alarmed, Concerned, Apprehensive, Intimidated, Petrified, Terrified, Frightened, Fearful, Scared

Lugubrious, Forlorn, Careworn, Deadpan, Morose, Sullen, Bullied, Intimidated, Guilty, Afraid, Shamed, Ashamed, Cowed, Browbeaten, Shamefaced

It might have been when you were afraid of commitment, or even when you were afraid of being vulnerable.
He describes being Queer and growing up afraid of being outed, afraid of being close to other Queer teens.
The ghost or the zombie never frightened us who were not afraid, but they will run after them who were too afraid.
Milla is afraid of her: has always been afraid of her.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Once again she admitted to herself that she was afraid, horribly afraid, of the beautiful woman with the cruel eyes.
Communism is everywhere and when you try to see it, you might start to get afraid, very afraid.
Be afraid, America, be very afraid not so much of ISIS, but of the Emory college students.
No one who hates but is afraid of love, and therefore must he be afraid of God.
So the Nome was afraid of himself and afraid of everything around him.

Later, when the truth is evinced and the hangdog man comes back to be reunited with his wife, another horrifying truth downs on him.
Included in the price is an evening at HangDog learning how to safely 'second' the leader.
Synonyms and related guilty meaning is Hangdog, Shamed and Shamefaced in: Destination Reality.
With his hangdog countenance and deadpan manner, Niccol comes across like a little Walter Matthau.
Slote looked at her with a hangdog smile, as though not sure she was serious.
Her presence made him look more hangdog than ever.