Sentence example with the word 'bashfulness'

bashfulness

Definition n. feeling embarrassed due to modesty

Last update: September 29, 2015


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Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas--entire strangers to them--and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table--all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes--looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.   [Please select]

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"That's cause I aint troubled with bashfulness," said Dick.   [Please select]

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"Bashfulness aint as natural to me as it is to you."   [Please select]

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Confounded at this note of interrogation, I pronounced with the most sheepish bashfulness, "Madam."   [Please select]

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"Here you have modesty, brother, silence, bashfulness, a savage virtue."   [Please select]

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Theodora never pretended to bashfulness where Ludovic was concerned.   [Please select]

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His bashfulness led her to suppose that he was an inexperienced youth.   [Please select]

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Lake’s questions with gawky grins and well-assumed bashfulness.   [Please select]

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Noddy, as a general rule, was not troubled with bashfulness; and he walked resolutely up to the manager, and intimated to him that he should like to be engaged as a performer.   [Please select]

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The gallant widower fell in love with Priscilla, but for some reason which does not clearly appear, but probably bashfulness, he sent another to do his courting.   [Please select]

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