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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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Etymology of 'Sheepish'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... now," said Wilton, as his companions picked themselves up from the floor, and gazed at each other with a sheepish look. ...

— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic

... a card was handed in to the editor with a note asking him to see for a moment the husband of his irate caller. When the man came in, he looked sheepish and amused ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok

... He looked sheepish, and retreated a pace at every step I advanced. At this point, however, the black horse started, and I was obliged to abandon the field for a moment to attend to him, for the reins had fallen under his feet. I turned the horse around, and then I saw that my cowardly assailant had armed ...

— Down The River - Buck Bradford and His Tyrants • Oliver Optic

... tried at a later time was that of a tall young man, diffident, pale and modest, being given a broom carefully wrapped in a sheet, and told that it was his sweetheart. He accepted the situation and sat down by the broom. He was a little sheepish at first, but eventually he grew bolder, and smiled upon her such a smile as Malvolio casts upon Olivia. The manner in which, little by little, he ventured upon a familiar footing, was exceedingly funny; but when, in a moment of confident response to his wooing, ...

— Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism • A. Alpheus

... start, his feet swung to the floor, his body hunched as if to spring, his glance wildly alive. Then it fell on her and the fierce alertness died out; his face softened into a smile, almost sheepish, and he rubbed his hand ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

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