Sheepish
adjective
Feeling or showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence.
She gave a sheepish grin when she realized her mistake.
Often appears as...
- sheepish grin
- sheepish smile
adjective
Resembling a sheep in meekness, stupidity, or timidity.
He looked at me with a sheepish expression as if he had done something wrong.
Often appears as...
- sheepish behavior
- sheepish attitude
adjective
Feeling or showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence.
She gave a sheepish grin when she realized her mistake.
Often appears as...
- sheepish grin
- sheepish smile
adjective
Resembling a sheep in meekness, stupidity, or timidity.
He looked at me with a sheepish expression as if he had done something wrong.
Often appears as...
- sheepish behavior
- sheepish attitude
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Embarrassment
Use 'sheepish' to describe someone who is slightly embarrassed but not deeply ashamed.
After tripping on stage, she flashed a sheepish smile to the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-conscious Behavior
'Sheepish' often implies a person is aware of their awkwardness or mistakes and feels uncomfortable.
He had a sheepish look when his voice cracked during the speech.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Discomfort
It describes a temporary state, not a person's overall character, and is not very intense.
Her sheepish grin didn't last long before we all laughed off the incident.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Embarrassment
Use 'sheepish' to describe someone who is slightly embarrassed but not deeply ashamed.
After tripping on stage, she flashed a sheepish smile to the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-conscious Behavior
'Sheepish' often implies a person is aware of their awkwardness or mistakes and feels uncomfortable.
He had a sheepish look when his voice cracked during the speech.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Discomfort
It describes a temporary state, not a person's overall character, and is not very intense.
Her sheepish grin didn't last long before we all laughed off the incident.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Embarrassment
Use 'sheepish' to describe someone who is slightly embarrassed but not deeply ashamed.
After tripping on stage, she flashed a sheepish smile to the audience.
Pro Tip 2/3Self-conscious Behavior
'Sheepish' often implies a person is aware of their awkwardness or mistakes and feels uncomfortable.
He had a sheepish look when his voice cracked during the speech.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Discomfort
It describes a temporary state, not a person's overall character, and is not very intense.
Her sheepish grin didn't last long before we all laughed off the incident.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 249 PIPE...
over the place and you become very hairy he's but he's a bits kind of sheepish about it so you'll find that he tries to kind of groom it and keep it short as much as possible goes for a try maybe now and then just so that his hair doesn't get out of control because he doesn't want to be a hairy Leopard at
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Quote examples
Porter Robinson
American Musician
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18 years old and I was ready to go to college; that was the next step for me. Then suddenly I had a song that blew up... and I had this artist's career and I was on tour with these big names and I didn't know what I was doing.
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Kathryn Erbe
American Actress
I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.
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Denise Mina
Scottish Writer
I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.
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Goldie
British Musician
Every genre succumbs to gentrification at some point- as equipment becomes cheaper, as crowds become younger, there seems to be a sheepish attitude towards producers - how they can follow a mundane, linear sound, and make money.
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Steven Biko
South African Activist
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
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Idris Elba
British Actor
I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Rachel Simmons
American Author
Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.
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David Miliband
British Politician
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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Bing Gordon
American Businessman
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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Ryan Phillippe
American Actor
People are sheepish when they approach me.
Quote examples
Porter Robinson
American Musician
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18 years old and I was ready to go to college; that was the next step for me. Then suddenly I had a song that blew up... and I had this artist's career and I was on tour with these big names and I didn't know what I was doing.
Quote examples
Kathryn Erbe
American Actress
I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.
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Denise Mina
Scottish Writer
I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.
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Goldie
British Musician
Every genre succumbs to gentrification at some point- as equipment becomes cheaper, as crowds become younger, there seems to be a sheepish attitude towards producers - how they can follow a mundane, linear sound, and make money.
Quote examples
Steven Biko
South African Activist
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity.
Quote examples
Idris Elba
British Actor
I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
Quote examples
Rachel Simmons
American Author
Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time.
Quote examples
David Miliband
British Politician
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
Quote examples
Bing Gordon
American Businessman
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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Ryan Phillippe
American Actor
People are sheepish when they approach me.
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