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
  • 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
  • Here is a region with the world’s highest population and the vulgar coexistence of unspeakable wealth as well as abject poverty.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of abject
Adjective
  • The real estate agent she’s chosen happens to be the person most responsible for making Rhiannon such a meek, repressed person: her high school bully, Julia (Mood’s Nicôle Lecky).
    Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Jenn, while possibly the best person on the show, is too meek and too little in her own estimation.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of meek
Adjective
  • For years, car safety experts and everyday drivers have bemoaned the loss of the humble button.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Along with your keepsakes, bring a humble and curious mindset.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of humble
Adjective
  • Youth team manager Dave Merrington was a strict disciplinarian, ensuring all the menial jobs done by budding young footballers back then — such as cleaning the dressing rooms and sweeping the terraces — had to be done to the highest standard.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Advertisement Trump’s rhetoric about jobs has been widely condemned by Democrats and Black leaders who have called it a racist and insulting way of implying that Black and Hispanic Americans take menial jobs.
    Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of menial
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lambently

lamblike

lambs

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“Lamblike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamblike. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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