bashfully

adv

Etymology

From bashful + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a bashful manner.

    • [T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
    • The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.

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