Meaning of Heepishly | Babel Free

Definitions

In a cloying, insincerely obsequious manner.

Examples

“Why should he take a sort of imbecile and morbid satisfaction, in appearing in the public chronicles of the day, under the depreciating, and, as it appears to us, ‘ Heep’-ishly ‘ umble ’ title of ‘ a small clergyman ?’”

“They're the ones slavering like Wile E. Coyote over that low-fat commissary quesadilla, or Heepishly dry-washing their red little hands while they pore over next month's studio spread sheet.”

“Rupert did express shame and contrition, however gruffly, ineptly and Heepishly: 'This is the most humble day of my life.'”

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