How To Use bashfulness In A Sentence
- The crowd eventually found its courage after a moment of bashfulness and then the flurry of items commenced to wend they way to the stage.
- Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
- The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
- I was overcome with bashfulness when I met her.
- He exhibits a reserve, diffidence, and even bashfulness, which is in some degree attractive, and leads the observer to thinly that the ferocious and bloodthirsty character imputed to the race must be grossly exaggerated. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2
- He had a kind of bashfulness that a married man would have lost. Maigret and the Lazy Burglar
- She has a quiet, humble presence not to be confused with bashfulness, and a Bob Marley shirt claiming, ‘One Love.’
- Alexander Aphrodisiensis makes all bashfulness a virtue, eamque se refert in seipso experiri solitum, etsi esset admodum sanex. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Nuzhat al-Zaman bowed her head in bashfulness when she heard what he said and communed with herself, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- It does not seem, indeed, as if men were ever born modest, unless we dub with the name of modesty a sort of purely physical bashfulness, which is nearer to pride than is generally supposed. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic