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- adjective Alternative spelling of
sheeplike .
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Examples
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No, they want to make it about anything and everything BUT their own feeble little minds and sheep-like personalities.
Obama speech to school children: 'You make your own future' 2009
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I weep over the sheer numbers of ignorant sheep-like Americans.
Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee. 2010
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Approach them with anything less than sheep-like solicitude, and you're asking for it.
Author Peter Watts Beaten & Arrested at US/Canada Border 2009
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But instead, it's always the sheep-like middle class that get tricked by the big Corporations.
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But they generally choose to become students (possibly because otherwise they'd have to beat the givers of scholarships off with a stick) and I doubt their choice is entirely because of their sheep-like docility and their calculations about credentialism.
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To the Republicans, you are just sheep-like cannon fodder for our wars.
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I pinned their herd mentality, their sheep-like bleating on hope.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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I was probably too sheep-like in those days to have even considered resisting the indoctrination.
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I pinned their herd mentality, their sheep-like bleating on hope.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Freshman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., bristled at the idea that tea party-influenced newcomers are sheep-like ideologues willing to risk default.
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