sheepish in English

adjective

1

(of a person or expression) showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence.

a sheepish grin

synonyms: embarrassed, uncomfortable, hangdog, self-conscious, shamefaced, ashamed, abashed, mortified, chastened, remorseful, contrite, apologetic, rueful, regretful, penitent, repentant

adjective

embarrassed, uncomfortable, hangdog, self-conscious, shamefaced, ashamed, abashed, mortified, chastened, remorseful, contrite, apologetic, rueful, regretful, penitent, repentant
sheeplike
shamefaced

Use "sheepish" in a sentence

1. He felt sheepish, innocent, but sheepish.

2. Sam looked a bit sheepish.

3. He gave me a sheepish look.

4. Mary gave her a sheepish grin.

5. They're also sheepish about their own gullibility.

6. She gave me a sheepish smile and apologized.

7. He came into the room looking distinctly sheepish.

8. Bobby looked at her with a sheepish grin.

9. Beyond her Gav stood looking awkward and sheepish.

10. Even Gesner, the star, looked a little sheepish.

11. She looked relieved at first, then a little sheepish.

12. Debbie arrived late for work looking a bit sheepish.

13. The doctor, taken by surprise , awkward and sheepish, knelt too.

14. He responded in a sheepish whisper: “God took him.

15. A mild, furtive, sheepish sort of blighter, in short.

16. Soon a sheepish of embarrassmentacross his big red face.

17. This, she thought with a sheepish giggle to herself, was ridiculous.

18. He finally gave me a sheepish grin and shrugged his shoulders.

19. She gives a sheepish smile as she opens yet another cupboard.

20. When he came to the window, he blinked with a sheepish smile.

21. When I confront him with his omissions and lies he just looks sheepish.

22. The Doctor gives a sheepish grin and says, " I should have told you yesterday! "

23. Followed by the sheepish admission of truth. this heralds a period of deeper intimacy.

24. Then his smile became a sheepish grin and his shoulders hunched in a giggle.

25. Sure, it might make you feel a little sheepish, but it's worth it in the end.

26. The couple leapt apart when she walked in on them and later came downstairs looking sheepish. Sentencedict.com

27. Looking rather sheepish, we hesitantly listed one or two points, worrying that we might sound narcissistic or arrogant.

28. 11 Looking rather sheepish, we hesitantly listed one or two points, worrying that we might sound narcissistic or arrogant.

29. Many economists avoid talking about unemployment in public, adopting a rather sheepish tone when forced to confront the issue.

30. Synonyms for Abashed include ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, shamefaced, shamed, humbled, blushing, sheepish, red-faced and with one's tail between one's legs

31. Much of Horn of Plenty's sheepish beauty lay in Christopher Bear's eccentric Blurrings of Edward Droste's naturally melodic, one-microphone campfire koans.

32. I had to use a steak knife to cut a portion of spaghetti for Charlie and then myself, while he watched with a sheepish expression.

33. It appears that Mister CRUM, though endowed with a somewhat sheepish and Bucolical exterior, is of tip-top Scottish caste and lineage, and the landed proprietor

34. A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAR EDWIN EMERSON The fellow looked sheepish, the girl's face was Aflame and the tears stood in her eyes, yet the crowd guffawed heartily

35. Bashful (adj.) 1540s, "excessively modest, shy and sheepish," with -ful + baishen "to be filled with consternation or dismay" (mid-14c.), from Old French baissier "bring down, humiliate" (see abash).An unusual case of this suffix attached to a verbal stem in the passive sense.