shy
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Generously season with salt and pepper, DO NOT BE SHY.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Trusting these nocturnal visits will be no longer necessary, I remain, "'THE SHY MAIDEN.'"
From Put Yourself in His Place by Reade, Charles
THE SHY BOY The shy boy has merely become shy because of lack of association.
From The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by Alexander, John L.
FOR THE SHY AND SELF-CONSCIOUS A great many of us suffer from self-consciousness.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian
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