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Definition of Sheepishness
1. Noun. Feeling embarrassed about yourself.
Generic synonyms: Embarrassment
Derivative terms: Shamefaced, Shamefaced, Shamefaced, Sheepish
Definition of Sheepishness
1. Noun. The quality or property of being sheepish; shyness; bashfulness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sheepishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepishness
Literary usage of Sheepishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robt: Leighton by Robert Leighton, George Jerment (1805)
"... as the upper region; not the place of continual tempest and storms, as the
most are: let it pass for a kind of sheepishness to be meek, it is a likeness ..."
2. The Lover's Lexicon: A Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, Philosophers by Frederick Greenwood (1893)
"How shall perfect innocence distinguish between the sheepishness of sheepishness
and the sheepishness of adolescent passion ? ..."
3. A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages (1869)
"Rustic sheepishness, bashfulness;" in other words, "sheepishness or bashfulness,"
the result of living too exclusively in the country. ..."
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