sheepishly

adv
/ˈʃiː.pɪʃ.li/UK

Etymology

From sheepish + -ly.

  1. inherited from schepische
  2. formed as sheepishly — “sheepish + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a sheepish way

    In a sheepish way; shyly; meekly; bashfully; self-consciously; with embarrassment.

    • Renton’s big mistake is sheepishly to offer Sick Boy his stolen share 20 years on: £4,000 in a crumpled brown envelope. “What am I supposed to buy with that?” rages Sick Boy bitterly later. “A time machine?”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sheepishly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA