bashfully
In a bashful manner.
Adverb
- In a bashful manner.
- [T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas. - 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,...
- The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant. - 1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts:
Origin
Etymology tree English bashful Middle English -ly English -ly English bashfully From bashful + -ly.