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bashful, adj.
freq. cnt. 1
more info self-consciously timid
<adj.all>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

bashful

sample sentences

"I never laughed, being bashful
lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
bashfulness
semantic pointers
similar to
timid
more info disposed to avoid notice
<adj.all>

bashful blate

sample sentences

"they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"
(`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
semantic pointers
similar to
backward
domain of synset (region)
Scotland