[ UK /ʃˈiːpɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃipɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing a sense of shame
  2. like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
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How To Use sheepish In A Sentence

  • The evidence she’d gathered at the beach had already arrived, delivered by a young tech who’d sheepishly entered the den of the legendary Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed. The Stone Monkey
  • I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair.
  • I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.
  • They were going to make me sit on the bimah," Kushner grins sheepishly. Lily Blau: The Temple and Tony Kushner: Worshiping Art and the Art of Worship
  • It was almost a prayer, but a prayer that included a thousand meanings Daylight strove to feign sheepishness, but his heart was singing too wild a song for mere playfulness. Chapter XXIV
  • I sheepishly meet his eyes for a moment and then focus on the hemp string around his neck.
  • Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin.
  • Some sheepish hands are raised and the rest are banished from his presence.
  • The auntie in front turned back and smiled at me while I smiled back sheepishly.
  • She also brought back Suzanne whose nose had returned to normal and who looked distinctly sheepish. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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