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English
Etymology
From bashful + -ly.
Adverb
bashfully (comparative more bashfully, superlative most bashfully)
- In a bashful manner.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:[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.
1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts:The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.
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