sheepishly
adv/ˈʃiː.pɪʃ.li/UK
Etymology
From sheepish + -ly.
- inherited from schepische
Definitions
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