English

Adverb

Heepishly ‎(comparative more Heepishly, superlative most Heepishly)

1. In a cloying, insincerely obsequious manner.
   • 1864 "The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Horse", London Society Vol VI, no XXXII (July 1864) p. 5

     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 ?’

   • 1996, Jeff MacGregor, "The Big O", Los Angeles Magazine (August 1996) p. 57

     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.

   • 2012, Piers Brendon, Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger (Random House, 2012) p. 61

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