bashful
- s self-consciously timid; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
I never laughed, being bashful - s disposed to avoid notice; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it
bastardly
- s born out of wedlock
- s of no value or worth
I was caught in the bastardly traffic
basic
- n a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
- n (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- a pertaining to or constituting a base or basis
a basic fact
the basic ingredients
basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities - s reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
a basic story line - s serving as a base or starting point
a basic course in Russian
basic training for raw recruits
a set of basic tools - s of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
basidiomycetous
- a pertaining to or characteristic of fungi of the class Basidiomycetes
basidiosporous
- a of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia
basifixed
- s attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks)