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Adjective
/ˈbaSHfəl/,
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Reluctant to draw attention to oneself; shy,
  1. Reluctant to draw attention to oneself; shy
    • - don't be bashful about telling folks how you feel
  1. self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
  2. disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
  3. (bashfully) shyly: in a shy or timid or bashful manner; "he smiled shyly"
  4. (bashfulness) abashment: feeling embarrassed due to modesty
  5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. ...
  6. Bashful is a 1917 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
  7. (Bashfulness) In humans, shyness (also called diffidence) is a social psychology term used to describe the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with ...
  8. this sense?) inclined to avoid notice
  9. (bashfulness) The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity
  10. wears a steel blue tuque that stands on end and has a thick, white beard that reaches to about knee-length, roughly the same length as Sleepy's beard. He appears to have the second largest nose out of the Dwarfs and wears a yellow-orange jacket with tan patches. ...