sheepish

Peter McMahon, the physicist-engineer at Cornell University who led the development of the network, defends it with a sheepish smile, pointing out that the handwritten number looks sloppy.

Each time this happened, my supervisor simply watched the whole thing with a sheepish smile, but never said anything to the manager.

As Arthur — sheepish, with festering frustration — Douglas nimbly walks a tricky tightrope.

Never be sheepish or embarrassed when you are asking for money from a foundation or a philanthropist.

“Look at all these open windows,” he berates his sheepish-looking underlings.

The other kind of clueless father I encounter on a semi-regular basis is the sheepish variety.

Necessary Errors is coming so late in my life that I feel a little sheepish about it.

There are denials from phone makers and carriers, sheepish admissions from others.

That left the small but fervid legion of believers who had dropped everything feeling upset and sheepish.

She resented his sudden drop from his pedestal, for he looked sentimental and somewhat sheepish.

Gradually he began to feel a little sheepish, but nevertheless he did not relinquish his desire to break up the service.

Well, I felt sheepish enough to be took in so, but I wouldn't a been in that ringmaster's place, not for a thousand dollars.

The sheepish manners of our students and school-boys, may also be attributed to the mutton so generally alloted to them.

George stood his ground, looking sheepish; the old woman stood before him trembling violently and fighting against her tears.