Antonyms for sheepish

Grammar : Adj

Spell : shee-pish

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃi pɪʃ

Definition of sheepish

Origin : c.1200, "resembling a sheep" in some perceived characteristic, from sheep + -ish. The sense of "bashful, over-modest, awkward among strangers" first is recorded 1690s. Related: Sheepishly; sheepishness. Old English had sceaplic "of a sheep, 'sheep-ly.'"

adj shy, embarrassed

Example sentences :

I ain't more 'n half a man when she's round, she makes me feel so sheepish.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

And who would have suspected so very fierce a wolf under so sheepish an outside?
Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini

I ain't more'n half a man when she's round, she makes me feel so sheepish.
Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown

He handed the assortment to Miss Thomas with a sheepish grin.
Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely

He swings me around facin' her, and I expect I must have acted some sheepish.
Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford

As he was leaving, Redcar spoke to him in rather a sheepish way.
Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade

Then with a sheepish laugh Frederik abruptly changed the subject.
Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco

They stuck close together, with terrified and sheepish glances at each other.
Extract from : « The Huntress » by Hulbert Footner

The doctor, taken by surprise, awkward and sheepish, knelt too.
Extract from : « The Trembling of a Leaf » by William Somerset Maugham

Mark was sheepish, at first, but Phyllis put him at his ease in no time.
Extract from : « Old Valentines » by Munson Aldrich Havens

Synonyms for sheepish

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