EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
While we men, taking blushes for a sign of guilt or sheepishness, are equally studious to suppress them.
Their sheepishness provoked us to laughter when we learned the true reason for all the bother.
"And that's the one thing I can't do," Banks admitted; and Bundy could not detect that any part of his sheepishness was feigned.
He was bowing with an effect of increasing strain and the intensity of his sheepishness becoming painful to contemplate.
The look gradually changed from one of wonderment to one of sheepishness.
The very thought of it undoes me—with an absolute shock of sheepishness.
"This is a better break then we deserve," Sime said, grinning with a trace of sheepishness.
Angèle was quite unembarrassed and promptly rescued both boys from sheepishness.
Their expressions ran the gamut from sheepishness to blank haughtiness.
But my sheepishness has gone, and I tell you I'll have you whether you will or no.
WORDS RELATED TO SHEEPISHNESS
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness