bashfulness

As it turned out, at least some of Leeuwenhoek's acquaintances in Delft shared his bashfulness about male bodily fluids.

It was thrust upon him, he said, a calling that required him to transcend survivor’s guilt and bashfulness.

It so happened that Beth’s funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once.

But bashfulness is no longer necessary for the man who for a decade played the fumbling, stammering Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films.

Neither would give their last names, out of a combination of bashfulness and distrust in the media.