bashfully

Adverb

Meaning

In a bashful manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shyly timidly guiltily simply purely quietly modestly plainly cautiously fearfully nervously demurely humbly coyly abjectly

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Antonyms

socially rashly arrogantly brazenly gallantly boldly

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Examples

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. Martin Buber

he smiled shyly Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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