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
Nanda is sheepish and embarrassed.
A turn that leaves you facing your stereotypes and feeling a little sheepish.
But he learns about the car crash later and feels sheepish.
He is discovered there, and easily captured in a daze, with a sheepish smile on his face.
He is looking a bit sheepish tonight.
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.
The sheepish looks of his colleagues show that they know it too.
He must be feeling a little sheepish now about having so slavishly read out what was obviously a pretty dud brief.
