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Definition of Bashful

1. Adjective. Self-consciously timid. "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"

2. Adjective. Disposed to avoid notice. "They considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"

Definition of Bashful

1. a. Abashed; daunted; dismayed.

Definition of Bashful

1. Adjective. inclined to avoid notice ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bashful

1. shy; timid [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bashful

bash out bash up basha bashaw bashaws bashed bashed the bishop bashedness basher bashers

bashert basherts bashes bashes the bishop bashful (current term) bashfull bashfuller bashfully bashfulness bashfulnesses

bashi-bazouk bashi-bazouks bashibazouk bashibazouks bashin' bashing bashing the bishop bashings bashism

Literary usage of Bashful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"For once, 0 Fortune ! hear my prayer, And I absolve thy future care— All other blessings I resign ; Make but the dear Amanda mine ! THE bashful LOVER ..."

2. A Bunch of Yarns and Rare Bits of Humor: An Original Collection of After by Francis J. Cahill (1906)
"ESS, your beau seems very bashful," said mamma to her daughter. "bashful!" echoed the daughter, "bashful is no name for it." "Why don't you encourage him a ..."

3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"He has not dragged into light a bashful and corrigible sinner. His censure was directed against a breach of morality, against an act which no man justifies. ..."

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