How To Use Bashfulness In A Sentence
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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.
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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
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The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
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I was overcome with bashfulness when I met her.
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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
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He had a kind of bashfulness that a married man would have lost.
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar
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She has a quiet, humble presence not to be confused with bashfulness, and a Bob Marley shirt claiming, ‘One Love.’
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Alexander Aphrodisiensis makes all bashfulness a virtue, eamque se refert in seipso experiri solitum, etsi esset admodum sanex.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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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
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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
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There may be many difficulties in your way, such as bashfulness, want of fluent speech, awkwardness of manner, and ignorance.
Trials and Triumphs of Faith
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In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides.
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Another thing is, that out of bashfulness he do not conceal his grief; if aught trouble his mind, let him freely disclose it, Stultorum incurata pudor malus ulcera celat: by that means he procures to himself much mischief, and runs into a greater inconvenience: he must be willing to be cured, and earnestly desire it.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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_Some folks_ should see that my bashfulness was wearing off faster than the gold from an oroide watch.
The Blunders of a Bashful Man
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By reserve we do not mean bashfulness or timidity.
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So dearly do we love our own voice that we cannot bear to hear it mixed with that of others -- perhaps drowned; and then our bashfulness tongue-ties us in the hush expectant of our "golden opinions," when all eyes are turned to the speechless "old man eloquent," and you might hear a tangle dishevelling itself in Neæra's hair.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
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Steele mentions with great tenderness that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit; and tells us, that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.
Life of Addison, 1672-1719
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Steele mentions, with great tenderness, "that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit;" and tells us, "that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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Then we sat down to converse and I hung my head earthwards in bashfulness, but she delayed not long ere she set before me a tray of the most exquisite viands, marinated meats, fritters soaked in bee’s536 honeys and chickens stuffed with sugar and pistachio nuts, whereof we ate till we were satisfied.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Nay, farther," continued Mr. Silton, "there are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which
The Man of Feeling
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Only because what we call modesty is awkward bashfulness and mauvaise honte.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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She replied not without timidity, but without that hasty bashfulness which is so often taken for modesty.
Rudin
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The MVP award is a topic players normally shoo away with humility and bashfulness - whether sincere or not.