SHEEPISHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheepishly mean? 

• SHEEPISHLY (adverb)
  The adverb SHEEPISHLY has 1 sense:

1. in a sheepish manner

  Familiarity information: SHEEPISHLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEEPISHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sheepish manner

Context example:

sheepishly he handed her back the money

Pertainym:

sheepish (showing a sense of shame)

 Context examples 

The man whom he called Morgan—an old, grey-haired, mahogany-faced sailor—came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He shook it and grinned sheepishly at the courier, who shrugged his shoulders in sign that they were beaten.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was sheepishly retreating also; but Mr. Rochester followed me, and when we reached the wicket, he said—Turn back: on so lovely a night it is a shame to sit in the house; and surely no one can wish to go to bed while sunset is thus at meeting with moonrise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I expressed my thanks; and Mr. Peggotty, after looking at Ham, who stood smiling sheepishly over the shellfish, without making any attempt to help him, said: “We come, you see, the wind and tide making in our favour, in one of our Yarmouth lugs to Gravesen”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly. "The orchestra left half an hour ago."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)