bashfully

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English bashful Middle English -ly English -ly English bashfully From bashful + -ly.

1. In a bashful manner.

   “[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.”

   “The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.”