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Definition of Sheeplike
1. Adjective. Like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity.
Definition of Sheeplike
1. Adjective. Resembling a sheep: docile or uncomplaining, or willing to follow a leader blindly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheeplike
Literary usage of Sheeplike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories by Stephen Crane (1997)
"Thus, fresh from scenes where many of his usual machines of reflection had been
idle, from where he had proceeded sheeplike, he struggled to marshal all his ..."
2. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"Behind the lines these two were acting a little isolated scene. The man was,
blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"And it is this sheeplike flock who have no direct impressions, no spontaneous
delight, no genuine objection or self-confessed neutrality in relation to the ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Only a limited number of people belonging to the sheeplike class, and who did so
because they always feel a vague fright at whatever progressive theories ..."
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