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Smith also wasn’t shy about his difficulties working with Hubert.

Some people shy away from it, and I sang my ass off as best as I could.

From Ozy

That world, I’ve always shied away from it, which is why I don’t have an album, which is why I never depended upon music to be an income for me, because I wasn’t ready to play those games that the music industry was playing.

From Ozy

Now, amid cries that tech companies are overvalued, in part due to a work-from-home rally, Berkshire Hathaway is not shying away.

From Fortune

Allseas, the Swiss-owned contractor that was laying the pipeline, immediately suspended its work, leaving the project 6% shy of completion.

From Fortune

The result was therefore foul-mouthed and bad-tempered in proportion to the force it took to get through my wall of shyness.

But those who worked with Charles in advertising say that his avoidance of contact was not shyness, but a deliberate campaign.

“An invincible modesty—not shyness—held him back,” wrote Barzun.

I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2.

My shyness disappeared when I got up to speak, and I was elected a senator in student government.

She stopped, and turned to face him, an incredible shyness seeming to cause her to avoid his gaze.

He meanwhile shunned the public gaze with a haughty shyness which inflamed curiosity.

There was a spell in the shyness, which made her avoid and shun all admiring approaches to acquaintance.

He had drawn her now by his shyness, his horror of other people, his perfect satisfaction in their solitary communion.

Notwithstanding Thurstane's shyness and silences, she discovered his moral weight and gathered his unspoken meanings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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