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UK
/ʃˈiːpɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈʃipɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃipɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- showing a sense of shame
- like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
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