Like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity.
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Examples for "sheepish "
Examples for "sheepish "
1 They seemed to respond better to Willow; they looked sheepish and guilty.
2 The young father is sheepish about inviting guests inside his prefabricated shelter.
3 There was a sheepish quality to the winning dressing-room in Killarney yesterday.
4 A human might have been sheepish about it, but Orma simply shrugged.
5 Several players stopped to give sheepish reactions to what had just transpired.
1 Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension.
2 Its screen was chipped and dust-covered and sheeplike figures moved across it dumbly.
3 One did not get the idea that Armenians, men or women, were sheeplike pacifists.
4 A sheeplike face she had always thought it before today.
5 His face struck Aidan as a bit mild and sheeplike .
6 Seen by his naked eyes, this man was not really mild and sheeplike at all.
7 Once they realized just how ugly it was getting, they got this stunned, sheeplike look.
8 Two of the sheeplike figures drifted closer.
9 The sheeplike musk-oxen were permanent inhabitants of the frozen north, and moved in small herds within a limited territory.
10 He whose teachings render men weak, sheeplike and cringing, credulous leaners upon leaders, is a tree that bringeth forth evil fruit.
11 The sheeplike docility of our public is apparent in numberless ways; in none, however, more strikingly than in their choice of amusements.
12 The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.
13 The spirited little broncho was fresh and mettlesome, and went off in a series of sheeplike bounds which her rider seemed not to notice.
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