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sheeplike

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1. sheeplike - Adjective

2. sheeplike - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity

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I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. Ted Nelson

All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility. Dashiell Hammett

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. John Dewey

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