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sheeplike

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Adj.1.sheeplike - like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
sheepish
docile - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
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With aim aright, With quivering flight, On LAMBKINS pouncing, Headlong down, sore-hungry, For lambkins longing, Fierce 'gainst all lamb-spirits, Furious-fierce all that look Sheeplike, or lambeyed, or crisp-woolly, --Grey, with lambsheep kindliness!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context
The other eye, sheeplike in its mildness, gave the most startling appearance to the beast, which but for that single timid orb was the most fearsome thing that one could imagine.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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