0 embarrassed because you know that you have done something wrong or silly:
She gave me a sheepish smile and apologized.
1 embarrassed because you realize you have done something wrong or silly:
a sheepish grin
Hesitant, uncertain, embarrassed, one might even say sheepish and then turning more than half circle to munificent support and positive action.
My failure to do so makes me feel very sheepish.
It is true that it is announced in a rather sheepish, hole and corner way.
Although they are a bit sheepish about claiming to be planners, they still claim it.
He must be feeling a little sheepish now about having so slavishly read out what was obviously a pretty dud brief.
The sheepish looks of his colleagues show that they know it too.
He was sheepish, defensive, ill at ease and almost honourably embarrassed about the task that he was facing and the record that he was having to defend.
He is looking a bit sheepish tonight.