Sheepish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Embarrassed, as by consciousness of a fault: a sheepish grin.
  • adj. Meek or stupid.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having the characteristics of a sheep
  • adj. shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to sheep.
  • adj. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to sheep.
  • Like a sheep; haging the character attributed to sheep or their actions; bashful; timorous to excessl over-modest; stupid; silly.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing a sense of shame
  • adj. like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
    • Equivalent
    ashamed    docile   
    Form
    sheepishly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bashful    overmodest    abashed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shamefaced    deprecatory    bemused    contrite    rueful    apologetic    self-conscious    abashed    bashful    regretful   
     
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