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bashfully
adverb as in modestly
Example Sentences
He was a social teenager who “hung out with the bad kids,” he said bashfully.
The ceremony didn’t bashfully suggest the show’s potential, rather, it kicked awards season’s door wide open, telling viewers that the Golden Globes is a powerhouse brand with plenty of fight left for another round.
When he bashfully stands up to prove her statement, the crowd roars in excitement.
“I’m sorry. I don’t date guys … who look like you,” he stammered, in a bashfully amused sing-song, as if I had asked him to autograph my underwear.
It sounds like fan fiction and looks like it, too, particularly when Galitzine dips his chin bashfully — a tic that Princess Diana passed on to her boys.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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