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sheepish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | shamefaced |
| Derivation | sheepishness |
sheepish::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sheeplike |
Examples of sheepish
sheepish
When asked how that translated into miles per hour, Callahan was a bit sheepish.
From the news-journalonline.com
Frampton didn't seem sheepish about having linked the provost's fate to his own.
From the nytimes.com
Moments later, Fink walks in with a slightly sheepish affect and takes his seat.
From the businessweek.com
If that ceases to be so, O'Shea could yet receive a sheepish call from Auckland.
From the guardian.co.uk
The same timid, faithful, sheepish you's and me's, generation after generation.
From the infowars.com
Whisper it, but I will admit that it's easy to feel sheepish about liking Glee.
From the tv.uk.msn.com
To be honest, I feel kind of sheepish, almost silly, reporting numbers like this.
From the freep.com
Not quiet in the sheepish sense, but quiet in that he doesn't demand attention.
From the dispatch.com
Many of them are sheepish at having voted, or even phone-banked, for him in 2008.
From the theatlantic.com
- Sheeplike: like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
- Shamefaced: showing a sense of shame
- (sheepishly) in a sheepish manner; "sheepishly he handed her back the money"
- (sheepishness) shamefacedness: feeling embarrassed about yourself
- Having the characteristics of a sheep; shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed
- (sheepishly) Meekly; self-consciously; with embarrassment
- (sheepishness) The quality or property of being sheepish; shyness; bashfulness
- Bashful. A sheepish fellow; a bashful or shamefaced fellow.
- (of a person or expression) showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence. "I gave him a sheepish grin and a quick 'Thank you'" (102).
