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• r  in a shy or timid or bashful manner
  he smiled shyly

• A vehicle door finally swings open and Donatella Versace of all people shyly emerges from her sanctum of tinted windows and tobacco smoke.
• They talk, they shyly share, they confront mortality.
• She was my guide on a recent trip to Andasibe, where she pointed out a Parson's chameleon lying motionless on a branch and a panda-like indri dangling shyly from the top of a tree.

• timidly
• bashfully

News & Articles

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• Brews, views at Snowbird’s Father’s Day Brewfest
  Snowbird » Brewfest offers a good time for dads and kids alike. "I think she just likes to spend time with dad," said Westbye as the girl shyly clutched his hand. They headed up Little Cottonwood Canyon Sunday to spend Father’s Day at the annual barbecue and Brewfest at the resort.
  June 17, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Quotes

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• Doris Lessing in Baltimore Sun
  Ms. Lessing described a visit with the headmaster of an impoverished school in rural Zimbabwe: "As I sit with my friend in his room, people drop shyly in, and all, everyone begs for books. 'Please send us books when you get back to London,' one man...
• Anthony Giddens in Jazz Police
  As Gary Giddens noted in the Village Voice, Morgan's "variations gently probe the chords, shyly turning around phrases and then picking up steam with a double-time barrage. He constantly evokes Parker but he also invokes a classic approach to the...
• Muhammad Yunus in Middle East Times
  Many mullahs come to us today to say very shyly, very timidly, 'Would you please accept my wife into your group?' After all these years seeing what is happening in the rest of the village he feels that he is left out,said Yunus. "He is...