Thesaurus / sheepishness
FEEDBACK- backwardness
- bashfulness
- constraint
- doubt
- fear
- hesitation
- humility
- insecurity
- meekness
- modesty
- reluctance
- reserve
- self-consciousness
- shyness
- timidity
- timidness
- timorousness
- unassertiveness
- mousiness
- shyness
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- apprehension
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- insecurity
- meekness
- modesty
- reserve
- restraint
- reticence
- timidity
- timidness
- timorousness
- insecurity
- modesty
- reticence
- timidity
- apprehension
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- meekness
- reserve
- restraint
- timidness
- timorousness
- apprehension
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- insecurity
- meekness
- modesty
- reserve
- restraint
- reticence
- timidity
- timorousness
- retiringness
antonyms for sheepishness
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How to use sheepishness in a sentence
He relapsed into uncommon sheepishness, and hardly knew how to address his mother, who sat sobbing in her armchair.
JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRARHe was bowing with an effect of increasing strain and the intensity of his sheepishness becoming painful to contemplate.
TURNS ABOUT TOWNROBERT CORTES HOLLIDAYWhile we men, taking blushes for a sign of guilt or sheepishness, are equally studious to suppress them.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 5 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSONAngèle was quite unembarrassed and promptly rescued both boys from sheepishness.
THE REVELLERSLOUIS TRACY"This is a better break then we deserve," Sime said, grinning with a trace of sheepishness.
THE MARTIAN CABALROMAN FREDERICK STARZLTheir sheepishness provoked us to laughter when we learned the true reason for all the bother.
SIXTEEN MONTHS IN FOUR GERMAN PRISONSHENRY CHARLES MAHONEY(to the child, who was convulsed with mirth and sheepishness).
MR. JACK HAMLIN'S MEDIATION AND OTHER STORIESBRET HARTEThey stared at her with sullen sheepishness, but no one answered.
CAPTAIN CALAMITYROLF BENNETTThe very thought of it undoes me—with an absolute shock of sheepishness.
THE RETURNWALTER DE LA MAREAnd then big Bob forgot his wonted sheepishness and spoke out with a man's voice, "I am sorry I spoke back, sir."
GLENGARRY SCHOOLDAYSRALPH CONNORWORDS 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.