How To Use bashfulness In A Sentence
- _Some folks_ should see that my bashfulness was wearing off faster than the gold from an oroide watch. The Blunders of a Bashful Man
- The MVP award is a topic players normally shoo away with humility and bashfulness - whether sincere or not.
- She replied not without timidity, but without that hasty bashfulness which is so often taken for modesty. Rudin
- Only because what we call modesty is awkward bashfulness and mauvaise honte. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
- Nay, farther," continued Mr. Silton, "there are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which The Man of Feeling
- Then we sat down to converse and I hung my head earthwards in bashfulness, but she delayed not long ere she set before me a tray of the most exquisite viands, marinated meats, fritters soaked in bee’s536 honeys and chickens stuffed with sugar and pistachio nuts, whereof we ate till we were satisfied. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Steele mentions, with great tenderness, "that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit;" and tells us, "that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
- Steele mentions with great tenderness that remarkable bashfulness, which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit; and tells us, that his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed. Life of Addison, 1672-1719
- Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
- The inhibitions disappear and the red face is a result of happy exertion rather than excruciating bashfulness.
