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shy person

noun as in shrinking violet

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Example Sentences

When a shy person decides to be assertive, they go over the top.

If there was one shy person in the house that night, there was another happier than words could tell!

For a professedly shy person, you certainly take a rather intimate tone.

She might be a very shy person, and if I appeared shy it would probably make her all the shyer; so I spoke.

Such a question makes a shy person very miserable, but the interest was pleasing.

Then is the time for the shy person to apply himself to social gymnastics.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shy person, such as: modest violet, mouse, retiring person, and shy thing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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