Dictionary Entry

bashful

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation[ˈbæʃfəɫ]Used In Literature ↓

Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.

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Poetry examples for “bashful”

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And the white mist curling and hesitating
Like a bashful lover about your knees.

As first our ileeh, corrupt withiP,
Tempts impotent and bashful sin.
And yet that worm triumphs not long,

Pray God it may his latest supper be.
Shall I sit gazing as a bashful guest,
While others touch the damsel I love best?

And, mad with shame, did eke her glove forget,
Which she return'd to fetch with bashful grace;
And when she would have said "this is[476] my glove,"

Yet less impossible and wild
Than those which bashful Love, in his own way and hour,
Shall duly bring to flower?

I lay, and spread your hair on either side,
And see the newborn wood flowers bashful-eyed
Look through the golden tresses here and there.

Were He to tell -- extremely sorry
This Bashful Globe of Ours would be --
So dainty of Publicity --

It craved the grace to worship
Some bashful Summer's Day --

The bashful Arides
Has married an ugly wife,

At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.