What is "sheepishly"

Usage examples of "sheepishly".

In the car, drawing away from the curb, I nodded at Mannie, grinning a little sheepishly.

Now he sheepishly stopped thinking about what a great setter into speech he was of the thoughts of an ignorant black girl from the Afric forest.

One of the male guests was holding an aluminum clothespole and staring sheepishly down at the rug.

Inside with the doors closed June rather sheepishly repeated the story of her mistake and the consequences in Leicester.

For a breed that professed so much love for the courtroom, tort lawyers fell limp with the visual of themselves sitting at the defense table, looking sheepishly at the jurors as their personal finances were kicked about in open court.

Rhys Michael stopped in midstroke, turning sheepishly to glance at his brother.

Father Jacques saw the slightly startled expression on his face, the way MacLeod's eyes looked up and down the front of his cassock, and he grinned sheepishly.

Hefner looked sheepishly up over the centerfold, took a large swallow of scotch, and said, 'Sorry about that.

Some women stared beratingly at Elizabeth-, others gazed sheepishly at their laps.

We will watch both the vehicle carrying the contraband and his Mercedes, and as soon as they come together, we will pounce-" Peter Fungabera emphasized this act of pouncing by slapping his leather, covered swagger-stick into the palm of his hand with a crack likea pistol shot, and Craig found that he was already so keyed up that he started nervously and then grinned sheepishly at Sally' Anne The radio set crackled and the side-band hummed, then a disembodied voice spoke in Shana, and Captain Nbebi acknowledged curtly, and glanced across at Peter.

THE ROAD TO OMAHA 193 Somewhat sheepishly, Desi the First emerged from a slatted dressing room door, followed by a generously endowed dark-haired girl who made it a point to stretch and check her measuring tape while adjusting her blouse.

Realizing we were the centre of attention, she let go of my hands and smiled sheepishly.

Nasreen Chamchawala fell, twitched, gasped, died, and when the all--clear sounded the guests emerged sheepishly to find their hostess extinct in the middle of the dining-room, stolen away by the exterminating angel, khali--pili khalaas, as Bombay--talk has it, finished off for no reason, gone for good.

Wallingford Carter's autogardener eventually returned to him and sheepishly resumed repairing the flower bed which it had so brusquely demolished prior to its sojourn in the nearby nature preserve.

Twice he’d found rabbles of unemployed miners loitering sheepishly in narrow parts of the way, armed with pikes and cudgels, and gotten them to disperse by explaining Herr Geidel’s plan to restore vigor to the silver mining business.