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

• Like many other first-time hagglers, Dougherty started out feeling a little sheepish and ended up finding the process rather exhilarating.
• Others will enjoy little frissons, like Guest's literally sheepish tenor (he baas his lyrics).
• Perhaps she makes a sheepish call to her husband, asking if he could skip out early while she puts out the fire at work.

• sheeplike
• shamefaced

News & Articles

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• 'Magic Magic' Trailer: Michael Cera Ups His Creep Game
  Hopefully, with the recent return of the Arrested Development , you got your fix of Michael Cera as a sheepish, kind-hearted nerd because in his next movie, he's a long way from being typecast. In Magic Magic , Cera plays a creepy, deranged sociopath (you can tell from because of the dark hair) who kills things, laughs maniacally, and torments poor Juno Temple on her South American vacation ...
  June 11, 2013 - Zimbio

Quotes

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• Joel Plaskett in Winnipeg Free Press
  I feel kind of sheepish, but I also feel lucky to be acknowledged for the work and the time that I've put in,said Plaskett, clutching the small, shiny award. "If we could carve this up into five pieces and share it, that would be my idea...
• Graeme Smith in NDTV.com
  I don't have a lot of confidence in it at the moment, probably both teams are sheepish about it,Smith said after the second Test of the ongoing series with Australia in Durban. "I'm not too sure what I can and can't say, there were...
• Vicente Fox in Reuters UK
  Fox said Bush was "a bit sheepish as he tried out his grade-school-level Spanish" at that meeting in Austin, Texas.