sheepishness

Others also diverged from the group's general air of sheepishness.

He says this without a trace of sheepishness or irony.

"I will be very careful not to leave things at home from now on," he says, with a hint of sheepishness.

Reaction within the public television community has ranged from sheepishness to horror.

"I was a pretty rotten kid growing up," he says, without a trace of sheepishness.

Today I have a new model for sheepishness.

She smiled with a certain sheepishness, as if embarrassed over revealing a weakness.

With very little sheepishness the scientists confess to possessing a theory of absolutely everything.

Chandler replies with cute sheepishness, "I watch it for the articles."

Spaniel Boy gave her a look of exaggerated sheepishness.

"I'll pass up the promenade," he said, with admiring sheepishness.

A fear, a vulnerability, maybe even a sheepishness.

There was a gruff sheepishness in his voice.

Ah, nothing like a bit of Canadian sheepishness going into a sporting event at which we normally dominate.

His sheepishness and his sincerity, she said, were charming.

But Cramer does not traffic in agnosticism or sheepishness.

The sheriff stopped just outside the bars and looked at Blaine, trying to conceal the sheepishness he wore.

He felt a thankfulness well up in him that there was no siren, and a sheepishness, as well.

He looked startled at the laughter that greeted the reference, and a shy smile appeared on the face of a man not known for sheepishness.

"My own defense systems destroyed her ship," Zevon admitted with some sheepishness.

He smiled, a mix between sheepishness and indulgence for the naive assumptions of the foreigner.

He said with weak sheepishness, "It's very complex."

There is no guilt, no sheepishness and definitely no giggles.

"There's such a thing as being too well adjusted," Jeff admits with a sheepishness that verges on impatience.

He looked like a black Charlie Brown, although he had none of the cartoon character's sheepishness.