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shy person

noun as in shrinking violet

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Example Sentences

I was always a shy person but that helped me.”

From BBC

"Praising myself, isn't me," Claire said, "I'm quite a shy person normally, and I do the display to remember all soldiers across the world."

From BBC

“Honestly, I’m a pretty shy person to write my own journey, but he really convinced me there is a voice to be heard on behalf of so many voices that are not heard,” Li said.

Amini, described as a shy person who minded her own business and stayed clear of politics, was detained as she stepped out of a train station in Tehran.

From Reuters

In relating, for example, how he — an essentially shy person who was a photographer before he started working in theater — finds solace hiding behind a camera, he brings an instant humanity to his humble presence.

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

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