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Definition of Bashful |
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Bashful
Abashed; daunted; dismayed. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. Related Definitions: Abashed, Action, As, Bashful, Constitutionally, Daunted, Dismayed, Disposed, Excess, Excessive, Expression, Extreme, From, Indicating, Modest, Modesty, Notice, Or, Person, Public, Shrink, Shy, To, Very |
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Bashful Quotations
The bashful are always aggressive at heart. Charles Horton Cooley I don't mean to be bashful, but I was. Willie Mays And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation. Margaret Cavendish Miss Child is never bashful with butter. Phil Donahue A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. Lawrence G. Lovasik Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book. Robert Bloomfield |
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Bashful Translations
bashful in Latin is vercundus |
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