Shy
Inadequately supplied; short; lacking; as, the team is shy two players.
Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
A side throw; a throw; a fling.
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Shy Quotations
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson
I want to resume the life of a shy person.
Garrison Keillor
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
Blake Lively
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth
The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.
Jeremy Rifkin
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
Bill Wyman
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
Dane Cook
I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.
Chris Brown
Shy Translations
shy in Danish is sky
shy in Dutch is bedeesd, blo, bevangen, timide
shy in French is ombrageux
shy in Italian is timido, timido
shy in Swedish is kasta, skygga, skygg, blyg
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