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Bashfully

Bashfully \Bash"ful*ly\, adv. In a bashful manner.

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bashfully

adv. In a bashful manner.

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bashfully

adv. in a shy or timid or bashful manner; "he smiled shyly" [syn: shyly, timidly]

Usage examples of "bashfully".

An elderly mouselike man who was drinking at the bar beside him coughed apologetically and edged bashfully nearer.

She looked at Aine, who was nodding a little bashfully as Eorna praised her to Cualha.

Outside in the perpetual nighttide of a military dockyard near Inguer, the dim, fog-shrouded world almost bashfully revealed itself in the feeble glow of three reddish-blue moons.

An elderly mouselike man who was drinking at the bar beside him coughed apologetically and edged bashfully nearer.

Now, the heart of the youth bounded at her words, and he went to her, and trembling kissed her all bashfully on the lips, on the eyes, and on the forehead, saying each time as she directed.

Four Fuzzies were peeping bashfully around the edge of the open back hatch.

The friend was smiling bashfully, eyes gleaming rapaciously, and Metcalfe could only assume that Eva Hauptman had whispered excitedly to her friend all about the Argentine businessman she had befriended in Paris, and why, here he is!