sheepishly
Adverb
Meaning
in a sheepish manner
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
sheepishly he handed her back the money
And Steve Carrel won points with 25-to-54-year-old women everywhere by smiling sheepishly as his wife, Nancy, kept butting in on his interview.
He was so harassed by pecuniary worries that he gave up his pew in a Madison Avenue church, admitting sheepishly he did so “because of my inability to pay the rent.”
The day it happened, I snuck out of work, rode the 6 train uptown, and sheepishly showed the tiny tube around the makeup floor of Barneys until someone recognized it and rang me up.
He sheepishly explains “Netflix and chill” to Erin.