单词 | sheeplike |
释义 | sheeplike (once / 151530 pages) adj WORD FAMILY sheep: sheepish, sheeplike, sheeps+/sheepish: sheepishest, sheepishly, sheepishness USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s part of Yee’s precocity to realize that a population molded into sheeplike complaisance is ideologically vulnerable. The New Yorker(Apr 10, 2015) Most of us complied, a startled and sheeplike herd. New York Times(Feb 03, 2015) The black man in North America was mentally sick in his cooperative, sheeplike acceptance of the white man’s culture. Alex Malcolm X;Hailey, The Autobiography of Malcolm X(1965) adj like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity Syn sheepish docile willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed |
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