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sheeplike


  • s  like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity

  • For a generation, Russia's doctors have been conditioned to follow, sheeplike, the late Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of conditioned-reflex fame.
  • With the transport still issuing orders from on high and fighter-bombers circling overhead like airborne collies, the whole convoy of prisoners was marched sheeplike into United .
  • It practiced direct action; it had a knack for breaking up Communist meetings and was expert at exposing the sheeplike West German businessmen who clandestinely supported the Reds .
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  • Robert Byrd in USA Today
    Yes, we believe in majority rule,Byrd said in his speech, "but we thrive because the minority can challenge, agitate and question. We must never become a nation cowed by fear, sheeplike in our submission to the power of any majority...

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