Crossword-Solution: SHEEPISH 8 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Sheepish a. Of or pertaining to sheep.
Sheepish a. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly
diffident; timorous to excess.

We have 20 clues for the answer “SHEEPISH”

Clue Answers
Timid and fearful 1 answer
Rather hesitant 1 answer
Quiet and true 1 answer
Like an embarrassed grin 1 answer
Grin variety 1 answer
Grins Like some 3 answers
Shame-faced 5 answers
Like some grins 8 answers
disgraced 8 answers
Ashamed 23 answers
Bashful 61 answers
meek 62 answers
Timid 62 answers
Abashed 66 answers
Mild 68 answers
Cautious 72 answers
Peaceful 72 answers
Uneasy 77 answers
Embarrassed 82 answers
Distant 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHEEPISH (5)

And so the two young men said nothing, and busied themselves in trying to hide their feelings, only succeeding in looking immeasurably sheepish.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
And now in your stupidity have you come and killed all but myself, and like to have killed the mighty Sator Throg himself.” The men looked very sheepish and very scared.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Won’t you tell us the names of the first two that were appointed?” Tom was tugging at a button-hole and looking sheepish.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Well, I felt sheepish enough to be took in so, but I wouldn’t a been in that ring-master’s place, not for a thousand dollars.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Then he lays down his angling rod and rises to his feet, and stands facing Ralph, looking sheepish, with his hands hanging down by his sides; and Ralph, who was thinking of other folk, wondered what he would.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with SHEEPISH (3)

That's a sweet piece," said Jean, briefly forgetting to be aggravated. "You didn't snatch that off a street.""No," said Locke, before taking another deep draught of the warm water in the decanter. "I got it from the neck of the governor's mistress.""You can't be serious.""In the governor's manor.""Of all the -" "In the governor's bed.""Damned lunatic!""With the governor sleeping next to her." The night quiet was broken by the high, distant trill of a whistle, the traditional …
Scott Lynch Red Seas Under Red Skies
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!""Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration. "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?
Alexandra Adornetto Halo
If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings, or The Catcher in the Rye or Gone With the Wind every couple of years with some much pleasure. Perhaps, like me, you're even a little suspicious of their claims, because we all know t…
Laura Miller The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1961–2022).