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synonyms for bashful

  • confused
  • coy
  • diffident
  • embarrassed
  • reticent
  • self-conscious
  • sheepish
  • timid
  • abashed
  • backward
  • blushful
  • blushing
  • chary
  • constrained
  • demure
  • humble
  • modest
  • nervous
  • overmodest
  • recoiling
  • reserved
  • retiring
  • self-effacing
  • shamefaced
  • shrinking
  • silent
  • timorous
  • unassertive
  • verecund
See also synonyms for: bashfully / bashfulness

antonyms for bashful

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  • aggressive
  • bold
  • forward
  • unabashed
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How to use bashful in a sentence

It’s fun to get to know these people, their insecurities and their problems and slowly grow closer past their bashful exteriors.
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Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
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Mrs. Nelson, riding in front with the bashful driver, vainly sought to engage him in conversation.
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It seems ridiculous that a fellow who could hold his head straight up before a storm of cannon shot, should be positively bashful.
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The French women have none of that bashful modesty which characterises the women of England and America.
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This was so unusual in the bashful Alfred that Miss Caldwell roused and slipped lightly to the ground.
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But as he seemed stronger and more lively the next day, I concluded he was bashful and only ate when I wasn't looking.
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They had grown fond of the quiet, bashful man—and as for him, he wondered how he'd get along among normal people.
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I caught a bashful flush mounting to his ears and the rumble of a chuckle in his throat.
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The tone was one that he might employ in addressing a bashful child.
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