Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a sheepish manner; bashfully; with mean timidity or diffidence; sillily.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a sheepish way; meekly; self-consciously; with embarrassment.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a sheepish manner
Etymologies
- From sheepish + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Thank you,” he calls sheepishly, locking the car and pocketing the keys; not surprisingly, the only response is a burst of disembodied laughter.”
“This New Year crept in sheepishly dragging behind it last year's pain.”
“Right away," he called sheepishly, muttering, "Be back in a moment," to Flint before hurrying to the table.”
“But I sometimes feel I'm doing something haram," she said sheepishly, using the Arabic word for banned.”
“My sister called sheepishly this morning to apologize.”
“It'll peer outside kind of sheepishly, the rush of each passing car making it pull back a little bit before coming out.”
“He looked at me and kind of sheepishly asked if that place would be okay I could really care less.”
“As you know, Bill and I looked kind of sheepishly at each other and -- how could there be 300 people at Turner's Bend?”
“Sometimes, "sheepishly," I 've tried it myself -- p'raps it's true.”
“Sometimes, "sheepishly," I've tried it myself -- p'raps it's true.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sheepishly’.
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The Adverb Zoo
List of adverbs that refer to animals and their supposed behaviors or qualities, such as doggedly. Real words please.
doggedly, swinishly, porcinely, piggishly, cattily, foxily, sheepishly, fishily, pussily, mousily, goosily, hennishly and 70 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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vocab
hard word word 4 strong vocab
ostracize, importune, impute, scintillate, mulct, deprecate, procrastinate, rusticate, vegetate, expiate, emulate, gesticulate and 345 more...
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It's me against the word
cacophony, blatant, pizzazz, sheepishly, slouch, mangled, eerily, esteem, pummel, façade, rendezvous, elusive and 20 more...
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Danielle's words
These are the words I've choosen.
omipresent, Verbose, sheepishly, Bulbous, Jag, Gawked, Devastatingly, antagonistic, Tousled, Opaque
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sheepishly.
dmcleod0914 "Well no. I think it was new in the early sixties- Or late fifties at the earliest," he admitted sheepishly. --Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, pg.7 Oct 1, 2010
calavera "Like in the chocolate ads, only I forgot the box of chocolates..." He shrugged sheepishly.
— On Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Jun 22, 2008