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adjective

Sheepish adj.

Of or pertaining to sheep. (Obs.)

Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. "Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sheepish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rousse, 'and so big Fortune will still be able to go to his work, and Rosalie won't lose her day's pay at the vintage. It is very convenient to be married so early in the morning. He looks very sheepish, ...

— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... be all right," sang out Dick, and feeling the bottom with his feet, Crabtree looked very sheepish and clambered ...

— The Rover Boys out West • Arthur M. Winfield

... passed an old fellow sitting on the sidewalk. There was somthing of that venerable, dignified, I've-been-a-slave look about him, so much of it that I almost stopped to question him. Inside I entered a classroom, where a young woman was in conference with a couple of sheepish youngsters who had ...

— Slave Narratives: Arkansas Narratives - Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 • Works Projects Administration

... we reached North Philadelphia the soothing hand of Time had exerted some of its consolation. The stout man wore a faintly sheepish smile as he rose to escape. The brakeman was in the vestibule. He, younger than the conductor, was no less kind, but we would hazard that he is not quite as resigned to mortal error and distress. He spoke genially, but there was ...

— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley

... unnecessary noise, while Henrietta gathered up the dishes, after again rebuffing me almost rudely for presuming to offer my services. Thus there was nothing left for me to do, apparently, but to sit on the soap-box and look at brother Mason, who regarded me in rather sheepish fashion over ...

— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson

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