Synonyms:
bashful
Meaning: self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
Usage examples
Not that he was shy or bashful.
She was never forward, but never bashful.
'He's not much used to ladies' society, and it makes him bashful.
But imagine a bashful youth, awkward and near-sighted, whose friends dissuade him from wearing glasses.
Don't be ridiculous, please,' begged the bashful lover, eager, but afraid of this sharp-tongued bit of womanhood.
"Don't you be bashful about sayin' so," exclaimed Leffingwell heartily, "'cause I don't think I could keep up more'n a half hour longer."
The waiter was at once despatched to the bashful gentleman, and the bashful gentleman took something; Mr. Jackson also took something, and the ladies took something, for hospitality's sake.
He was very quiet and bashful, was Mr. Turtle, and he never meddled with any one's business, because he believed that the best way of keeping out of trouble was to attend strictly to his own affairs.
George Rose, so well known in after life as the friend of Pitt, Clerk of the Parliament, Secretary of the Treasury, etc., and executor of the Earl of Marchmont, but then "a bashful young man," was one of the frequenters of this tavern.