Feeling embarrassed about yourself.
1 He laughed proudly, with a touch of sheepishness at the unaccustomed metaphor.
2 His sheepishness suggests to me that it was a misguided cross.
3 Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness.
4 He told me, without a shred of sheepishness , that he made it all up.
5 Inside the vault door of Flat Fourteen there was sheepishness .
6 She hated the villagers for their sheepishness , almost as much as she hated herself.
7 The four original participants of the rumpus resumed their places in various stages of sheepishness .
8 Tu-Kila-Kila stood sucking his finger, and looking the very picture of the most savage sheepishness .
9 Cowardice, sheepishness , and a hundred other reasons prevent it.
10 There was a silence; then Betty said, not without sheepishness , "Frank's all right."
11 He held up a hand with calculated sheepishness .
12 Peake jumped like a shot rabbit, reddening to the neck with stupefaction, excruciating sheepishness and annoyance.
13 He made no answer, and the contempt his countenance had exhibited the moment before sunk into sheepishness .
14 Together with sheepishness , remorse and murderous self-reproach.
15 But my sheepishness has gone, and I tell you I'll have you whether you will or no.
16 A main cause of the disadvantageous appearance exhibited by the ordinary schoolboy, lies in what we denominate sheepishness .
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