Sentence Examples:
He asked with bashful timidity.
A bashful dog never fattens.
Why, gals is that bashful!
Have you grown so bashful, forsooth?
The Indian seemed almost bashful now.
He'll be dreadfully bashful, I know.
Too darned bashful; seems like bragging.
He was as bashful as a schoolgirl.
Inquired the bashful yet persistent suitor.
His bashful reply was almost inaudible.
Miss Wynn thought him delightfully bashful.
Too bashful to stand the racket to-night!
Cried Nelly, standing up in bashful discomfiture.
Their mistress used no such bashful subterfuge.
She thought the welter-weight was bashful, too.
Mollie advanced, bashful, but brimming with self-importance.
A coat that's patched; a sheepish, bashful fellow.
I was one of these abnormally bashful boys.
Then it must be your beau, you look so bashful.
She was not used to such bashful suitors.
"Double-O" Gerrard reddened and lapsed into bashful silence.
She replied, nodding cordially to the bashful lad.
I seldom mention the fact, being constitutionally bashful.
His voice on that was neither bashful nor boyish.
I can sympathize with him, being so bashful myself.
He remembered the autograph albums of his bashful youth.
He was a singular youth, at once bashful and baleful.
In astonishment, Forestier exclaimed: "You are not at all bashful!"
Peck is not bashful; he is only a little diffident.
From early boyhood, I was extraordinarily timid and bashful.
These bashful, deferential women are probably sneaky and deceitful.
Unfortunately self-possession is the last possession of a bashful man.
This time the bashful author acquitted himself with more honor.
Only before others they are bashful and reticent like myself.
"Jake ain't scared, he's only bashful," drawled Sid Russell.
"I thought, Sire, your duke was timorous, bashful as a boy?"
The bashful clerk was completely intimidated by this speech.
Most bashful people are abrupt, at times quite startling, in speech.
Modest, diffident, shy, shrinking, timid, bashful, reserved, distant, demure.
She hesitated, muffled from head to foot, shadowy and bashful.
Well, the mink suddenly felt sort of bashful about intruding.
He rose up before her, his old bashful, stammering, awkward self.
A smile both bashful and sarcastic flitted across his face.
We were well acquainted, but her schooling had made her bashful.
Robert's repentant and bashful face was seen over the mendicant's shoulder.
A bashful curate found the young ladies in the parish too helpful.
"Perfectly possible," swished and fawned the bashful little fur body.
This tendency makes the woman coy, bashful, modest, reserved, retiring.
Fritz did not appear very bashful, but was capering around Beth.
He asked the bashful youngster, pointing to the drawing under discussion.
My suitors are so bashful, you know; I have to urge them on.
The bashful student had become the genial companion and interesting talker.
They will say you are so bashful, or even that you are gauche.
Women that are least bashful are not infrequently the most modest.
Here Fanny, a bashful but observant child, saw life in the drawing-room.
Who ever knew a really proud person to be bashful and diffident?
He was bashful still, despite the emergency his villainy had made.
The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.
The bashful are impelled to greater boldness, the careless to stricter attention.
He became less bashful, got acquainted with everybody, and played tolerably well.
He ran up to greet her with boyish awkwardness and bashful timidity.
It was the triumph of love, duty, and piety, over bashful timidity.
Was it the feint of a bashful girl, or was he himself dreaming?
King looked rather like a bashful bulldog, and endeavored to change the subject.
And then we looked at each other ardently, but I was very bashful.
None of his friends accustomed to his bashful habits would have believed it.
He's dreadfully bashful with girls, though you'd think he oughtn't to be.
She smiled, and seemed glad at heart, but was bashful and downcast.
The bashful boy, no less than the bashful man, is abnormally self-centered.
With the lunacy upon him, he flung to the star a bashful kiss.
David's bashful attentions were by no means displeasing to her: that I saw.
Joanna is embarrass'd and surprised; I see the bashful crimson tinge her cheeks.
It is astonishing how much a little borrowed plumage becomes a bashful man.
"The astronomers have certainly made a mistake in naming this bashful planet Venus."
Hiram was the bashful one, and the young lady apparently the flirt.
I acted just like a bashful schoolgirl, and ought to be ashamed of myself.
He was distrustful also of himself, and bashful even to the point of timidity.
Said the younger Kearney, with an odd mingling of astonishment and bashful gratification.
Many of them also produce an altogether unmanly, effeminate, bashful, and timid impression.
He felt utterly hampered, and began twirling his thumbs like a bashful cowboy.
As coy and bashful as you seem, I dare say you are rogue enough at bottom.
She seemed an obstinately bashful young girl, to whom it was useless to talk.
In the daytime I am not eloquent, but bashful and embarrassed, even when alone.
The Doctor stammered, and was bashful, although such a veteran in the service.
Yet she could not help feeling a little bashful pride in her handiwork.
The women did not veil, and were modest and bashful in their deportment.
He turned to the bashful chap, who had resumed his former demeanor of deprecation.
The bed of a doubtful mahogany burrows into the bashful retreat of the alcove.
The fathers helped their better halves in this; they were bashful to a degree.
We should be compelled to say just what Mary did to her bashful suitor.
There is no dearth of singers, no bashful hanging back, no waiting for polite pressure.
The absurd vanity and audacity of the thought made me blush like a bashful schoolgirl.
He would not be bashful in the very least: there is no shyness about Johann.
And now Mistress Kitty hung her head, looked exceedingly bashful and exceedingly coy.
She looked so very demure that Beth thought her bashful, and took pity on her.
I, the most audacious man of my age in London, had behaved like a bashful boy!
We find there men possessed of many virtues, but proud, bashful, fastidious, and reserved.
Many years had passed since Sheridan's metrical toast "to the maiden of bashful fifteen."
I was only bashful John Flutter, the butt and ridicule of a little meddling village.
A useful precept in reference to all passions is especially valuable in the case of the bashful.