bashfully
Adverb
Meaning
In a bashful manner.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
shyly
timidly
guiltily
simply
purely
quietly
modestly
cautiously
plainly
fearfully
nervously
demurely
humbly
coyly
abjectly
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Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other.... Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
he smiled shyly