bashfulness

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2022

A painter nearing 80 and recuperating from a hip replacement, he has the imperiousness and bashfulness of a lion in winter.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2019

Just don’t tell him he’s a star, because he will shake his head and grin with genuine bashfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2017

To hear the players tell it, they let Stafford and the Lions take it by falling victim to the most annoying late-game habit in football: defensive bashfulness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2016

He was all nerves and fascination and bashfulness and a deep, stirring hope.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor