sheepishly

1. 1.

   in a sheepish manner

   “sheepishly he handed her back the money”

Questions about sheepishly

What does sheepishly mean?

sheepishly means "in a sheepish manner".

How many syllables are in sheepishly?

sheepishly has 3 syllables: shee-pish-ly. The stress falls on "shee". In IPA it is /ˈʃipɪʃli/.

Is sheepishly a common word?

sheepishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.