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Shyness

noun

(Written also shiness)

A feeling of fear of embarrassment.

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"Shyness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Uncle Warrington. Only last night his aunt had kissed him and loved him like a son. His uncle had called down blessings on his head, and professed quite a paternal regard for him. With a feeling of shyness and modesty in presence of those virtuous parents and family. Harry had never said a word about his wild doings, or his horse-racings, or his gamblings, or his extravagances. It must all out now. He must confess ...

— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... response to his gentle insistence, but her shyness went with her. She was aware of something intangible in the atmosphere that startled, that ...

— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell

... persons of a refined and sensitive organization, you suffer from the very uncommon disease of shyness. At the very time, perhaps, when you desire most to please, to interest, to amuse, your over-anxiety defeats its own object. The self-possession of the indifferent generally carries off the palm from the earnest ...

— The Young Lady's Mentor - A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends • A Lady

... wonderful for you to have done all this," she said with sudden shyness. "You had ...

— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley

... alight, but Mary and her husband came to them where they waited at the gate and stood long, talking happily. Jamie and Bobby followed at their heels and peered up curiously at the wounded soldier, but Betty was seized with a rare moment of shyness that held ...

— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

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