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adjective
- 1. showing or feeling embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence: "a sheepish grin"
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The meaning of SHEEPISH is resembling a sheep. How to use sheepish in a sentence.
SHEEPISH definition: 1. embarrassed because you know that you have done something wrong or silly: 2. embarrassed…. Learn more.
SHEEPISH meaning: 1. embarrassed because you know that you have done something wrong or silly: 2. embarrassed…. Learn more.
When you're sheepish, you're like a sheep — embarrassed and not confident. The word sheepish can be used to describe how someone looks or acts. If you wear a sheepish grin, you're embarrassed. Similarly, if you're feeling a bit sheepish, you're probably wanting to hide away from the world.
Sheepish definition: embarrassed or bashful, as by having done something wrong or foolish.. See examples of SHEEPISH used in a sentence.
If you look sheepish, you look slightly embarrassed because you feel foolish or you have done something silly. The couple leapt apart when she walked in on them and later came downstairs looking sheepish.
Definition of sheepish adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
