Crossword-Solution: BASHFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bashful | a. | Abashed; daunted; dismayed. |
| Bashful | a. | Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. |
We have 74 clues for the answer “BASHFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Coy, shy | 1 answer |
| Quick to blush | 1 answer |
| Given to blushing | 1 answer |
| *Painfully shy | 1 answer |
| Happy's brother | 1 answer |
| One of Doc's companions | 2 answers |
| Sleepy companion | 3 answers |
| Doc's friend | 3 answers |
| Grumpy cohort | 4 answers |
| Shame-faced | 5 answers |
| unassertive | 6 answers |
| Coquettish | 6 answers |
| DWARF in Snow White | 7 answers |
| One of the Seven Dwarfs. | 7 answers |
| COMPANION GRUMPY | 10 answers |
| Mousy | 14 answers |
| unimposing | 17 answers |
| uncommunicative | 20 answers |
| Ashamed | 23 answers |
| Taciturn | 28 answers |
| Blushing | 36 answers |
| unnoticeable | 37 answers |
| Afraid | 45 answers |
| sus | 50 answers |
| Unpretentious | 50 answers |
| Retiring | 51 answers |
| cloistered | 51 answers |
| undemonstrative | 51 answers |
| wavering | 52 answers |
| distrusting | 53 answers |
| Reclusive | 53 answers |
| Sheep-ish? | 54 answers |
| retreated | 54 answers |
| Diffident | 55 answers |
| timorous | 56 answers |
| Distrustful | 58 answers |
| coy | 60 answers |
| inhibited | 61 answers |
| prudish | 61 answers |
| meek | 62 answers |
| Peaceable | 62 answers |
| incommunicable | 62 answers |
| Timid | 62 answers |
| unobtrusive | 62 answers |
| Cagey | 63 answers |
| Reluctant | 63 answers |
| Shrinking ___ | 64 answers |
| Demure | 64 answers |
| constrained | 67 answers |
| chary | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with BASHFUL (5)
How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays; gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overran the surrounding trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or sauntering, with a whole bevy of them, along the banks of the adjacent millpond; while the more bashful country bumpkins hung sheepishly back, envying his superior elegance and address.
Fred liked, too, the doctor’s manner with Thea, his bashful admiration and the little hesitancy by which he betrayed his consciousness of the change in her.
Whether he was sulky, or whether he was bashful, after his discomfiture in the rose-garden, I can’t say.
Ferrars is certainly nothing to me at present—but the time _may_ come—how soon it will come must depend upon herself—when we may be very intimately connected.” She looked down as she said this, amiably bashful, with only one side glance at her companion to observe its effect on her.
Just sit down to the table and help yourself; eat all you want, and don't be bashful." Julius drew a chair up to the table, while my wife and I went out on the piazza.
Quotes with BASHFUL (3)
How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1965–2020).