lamblike

adjective

Definition of lamblikenext
as in sheepish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lamblike
  1. sheepish
  2. hangdog
  3. servile
  4. abject
  5. meek
  6. humble
  7. menial
Adjective
  • Musk has not been sheepish about staking the company’s future on autonomous software.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The scene where Acuña calls Drake’s mom to tell her that her son is (temporarily) out of the band, while a sheepish Drake stands nearby him, is sufficiently intense to make a viewer cringe with sympathetic embarrassment.
    Joe Leydon, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
Definition of sheepish
Adjective
  • The Movie finds its titular alpha wolf Scott McCall (Tyler Posey) a teenager no more, but still struggling with the same hangdog loneliness.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The man is Calum (Normal People's Paul Mescal), dangling on the cusp of 32, handsome in a hangdog way, with an arm in a cast and a big smile that can't entirely hide the distress that nips at his joy.
    A.A. Dowd, Chron, 9 Nov. 2022
Definition of hangdog
Adjective
  • His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.
    Serhiy Kudelia, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2014
Definition of servile
Adjective
  • Like Lozano, Gregg Berhalter won’t get away with abject failure lightly.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
  • Perhaps that’s why the character feels so one-dimensional compared to the franchise’s previous antagonists — that and the script’s abject failure to involve Gina in the story’s emotional stakes.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of abject
Adjective
  • Tucci, a reassuring screen presence for more than three decades, is casually excellent as the iconoclastic Bellini, wisely downplaying his character’s physicality in favor of meek conviction.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, Amy Adams, whose performance as a meek nun in Doubt was her second Oscar nomination after Junebug, reaps that windfall and wins her Oscar nice and early in her career.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of meek
Adjective
  • Chapter 1: The Rise of Scribe Media Scribe Media started in 2014 as the humbler, niche-sounding Book in a Box.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Just a few steps up the hill is a humble boulangerie that punches far above its weight; Le Fornil de Mon Père has been making bread and pastries in the area for eight decades.
    Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of humble
Adjective
  • Other announcements included an experimental coding agent called Jules, which uses AI to generate simple computer code and carry out menial software engineering tasks, like fixing bugs.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, the vast majority of the it is spent walking around each locale, looking for ways to progress or solving minor puzzles and other menial tasks.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of menial
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