bashfulness

As it turned out, at least some of Leeuwenhoek's acquaintances in Delft shared his bashfulness about male bodily fluids.

It was thrust upon him, he said, a calling that required him to transcend survivor’s guilt and bashfulness.

Laurie’s bashfulness soon wore off, for Jo’s gentlemanly demeanor amused and set him at his ease, and Jo was her merry self again, because her dress was forgotten and nobody lifted their eyebrows at her.

But bashfulness is no longer necessary for the man who for a decade played the fumbling, stammering Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films.

Neither would give their last names, out of a combination of bashfulness and distrust in the media.