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Meanings of bashful in English

Disposed to avoid notice; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)

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Usage of bashful in English
1
The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
2
She was kinda bashful about comin' in, not knowin' you an' all.
Hill girl
3
Casting bashful side-glances at nobody in particular, she seated herself opposite Lucy
The Rise of David Levinsky
4
I was bashful to begin with, then Brexit and our election happened.
The Guardian
5
Best compliment I ever had. He allows a bashful chuckle, plainly delighted.
The Guardian
6
Something I will allow for your bashful sweetness; but not too much.-Mrs.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
7
Quicksilver shifted from foot to foot like the Cowardly Lion being bashful.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
8
Vardia took all the attention nervously, still bashful and unsure of herself.
Midnight at the well of souls
9
But the evenings were somewhat trying to one of my bashful temperament.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
10
But Professor Featherwit declined, his foxy face wrinkling in a bashful laugh.
The Lost City
11
She drew back with a bashful look when she saw the stranger.
The Woodcutter of Gutech
12
The bashful scholar was overwhelmed with shame at finding himself suddenly famous.
Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers
13
The young person, aged fifteen at the most, was naturally very bashful.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 6
14
There was nothing bashful about Bolton when he started tightening the screws.
Nothing in her way
15
It was the triumph of love, duty, and piety, over bashful timidity.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
16
Indeed, the brave, bashful boy was shy of us for several days.
Driven Back to Eden
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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