英语词汇“sheepishness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sheepishness

释义

sheepishness|ˈʃiːpɪʃnɪs|
[-ness.]
† Simplicity, stupidity; † timorousness; excessive bashfulness or diffidence.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 62 To speake something with too much simplicitie..is a sheepishnesse.1605Chapman All Fools i. ii. 145 Your forged sheepishnes.1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch xvi, Thy Gentrie bleats, as if thy native cloth Transfus'd a sheepishnesse into thy storie.1647Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. xi. 3 Simplicity: the world cals it sillinesse, sheepishnesse.1712Steele Spect. No. 484 ⁋5 Under the notion of modesty, men have indulged themselves in a spiritless sheepishness.1814Scott Wav. xviii, A natural and rustic grace, with nothing of the sheepishness of an ordinary peasant.1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vi. 153 He is bashful, even to sheepishness.

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