Usually means: Embarrassed or shy due to guilt.
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  1. sheepish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sheepish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheepish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sheepish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sheepish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sheepish, sheepish: Wordnik
  7. sheepish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sheepish: Wiktionary
  9. sheepish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sheepish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sheepish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sheepish: Dictionary.com
  13. sheepish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sheepish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sheepish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sheepish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sheepish: Rhymezone
  18. Sheepish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sheepish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sheepish: Free Dictionary
  21. sheepish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sheepish: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. sheepish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sheepishly as well.)

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adjective:  Having the characteristics of a sheep, as meekness, shyness, or docility.
adjective:  Shy, meek, ashamed or embarrassed.

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