What's the difference between abashedly and sheepishly?
Abashedly
Definition:
(adv.) In an abashed manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later on, it was my mum who would bang on about people being lesbians and I would be pleased but still rather abashed to hear the words.
(2) Do not feel abashed, faithful correspondent, for it is not your fault.
(3) Hytner seems genuinely abashed at the suggestion he's made it look easy.
(4) "I saw Katie Price here on TV," she says, a touch abashed.
Sheepishly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Normally I'm really interesting to talk to but I just can't right now," one employee, drinking an ale, smiled sheepishly.
(2) A startled man got out of the passenger seat, then a sheepish looking woman in a cocktail dress and holding a half-smoked cigarette emerged, smoothing her hair.
(3) On the BBC, Jingo Boy and Mark Lawrenson are debating whether a slightly sheepish looking Jorge Larrionda is trying to level things up as best he could.
(4) A burning desire to get the hell out of this boring town where nothing ever happens – even if only to return sheepishly in middle age, with your kids, to somewhere that nothing ever happens – is the rocket fuel propelling millions of teenagers into bigger and better lives than previous generations experienced.
(5) My team doesn’t do great on diversity,” Allen admits sheepishly.
(6) That’s certainly what the membership would feel.” Regarding the “two out of 10” score, however, he is more sheepish.
(7) He looks sheepish and laughs: “Look, were one to say Ruskin’s entire view were beside the point, it would be outrageous – ludicrous.
(8) By 1996, rumours of a relationship had been confirmed: paparazzi shots of here a shy kiss, there some sheepish hand-holding.
(9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
(10) With e-cigs, it seems you haven't "really quit", even if you've really quit tobacco, the very substance that sheepish smokers yearn to eschew.
(11) But it has just had to – sheepishly, you’d imagine – admit that the personal details of up to 4 million federal employees have been compromised.
(12) She rather sheepishly admits that she has just set one up, but when I ask her when she did so she says: "Today, or yesterday."
(13) "I was working on my own film, too, but it never worked out," he says sheepishly.
(14) I once got offered a pay rise only to be called back in a couple of days later and told, a little sheepishly, that actually, terribly sorry, it wasn’t going to be possible.
(15) This feeling of sheepishness is unavoidable: we gave the crisis a human face because without one it would have been even more incomprehensible, alienating and frightening than it already was.
(16) In the live TV announcement, he was presented with a letter his 15-year-old self wrote to the Radio Times praising its Doctor Who coverage, which Capaldi sheepishly referred to as "the full anorak".
(17) But the pension funds have had the last laugh, with Webb's sheepish statement that, contrary to his promise, "any cap on charges will not be introduced before April 2015".
(18) We had all zoned out a bit at the end of a long ceremony, but woke up with a start when La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz announced that it was a mistake, that Moonlight has won, and said what must for him have been sickening words: “This is not a joke.” Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement Read more After that brush with the cockup-iceberg, our awards-season flagship Titanic was to limp very sheepishly into port.
(19) As the first week came to an end, I asked when I would have my expenses reimbursed (it had clearly stated on the internship advertisement that expenses would be paid) and was sheepishly informed by his assistant that they didn't pay expenses.
(20) As the scorecards were read, the boos started with the first verdict against Pacquiao and didn't let up through the post fight interviews with a visibly sheepish Bradley.