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Crossword-Solution: SHY 3 letters, 360 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Shy superl. Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Shy superl. Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Shy superl. Cautious; wary; suspicious.
Shy a. To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said
especially of horses.
Shy v. t. To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a
stone; to shy a slipper.
Shy n. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
Shy n. A side throw; a throw; a fling.

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We have 360 clues for the answer “SHY”

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"Don't be ___!" ("Step right up!") 1 answer
"Once Bitten, Twice ___" 1 answer
"Too ___" ('83 hit for Kajagoogoo) 1 answer
"Too ___" (Kajagoogoo) 1 answer
A few bucks short 1 answer
A little short 1 answer
A little short, as of money 1 answer
A little under 1 answer
A quick throw 1 answer
Acting tongue-tied 1 answer
Averse to conversing 1 answer
Averse to first moves 1 answer
Averse to first moves, e.g. 1 answer
Avoiding the spotlight 1 answer
Bashful, but not Dopey 1 answer
Bashful, timid 1 answer
Camera-___ (reluctant to be photographed) 1 answer
Creepmousy. 1 answer
Daphnean 1 answer
Extremely self-conscious 1 answer
Far from a drama queen 1 answer
Far from a social butterfly 1 answer
Far from outgoing 1 answer
Hardly extroverted 1 answer
Hardly likely to streak 1 answer
Hesitant to ask that pretty girl to dance, say 1 answer
In a shell? 1 answer
In debt to the pot 1 answer
Inclined to avoid the spotlight 1 answer
Indebted to the pot, in poker lingo 1 answer
Intimidated by attention 1 answer
Just short 1 answer
Lack self confidence in social 1 answer
Lacking enough money 1 answer
Lacking self-confidence in a social situation 1 answer
Lacking the required funds 1 answer
Lacking: Slang. 1 answer
Leery of being noticed, maybe 1 answer
Less than forward 1 answer
Like Bashful 1 answer
Like Laura Wingfield in "The Glass Menagerie" 1 answer
Like a "smol bean, uwu" 1 answer
Like a violet. 1 answer
Like a wall flower 1 answer
Like debtors 1 answer
Like kids at a new school, often 1 answer
Like many a toddler in front of strangers 1 answer
Like many a wallflower 1 answer
Like one opting not to dance at the fall formal, say 1 answer
Like one sitting alone at the dance, probably 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHY (5)

Yet she was not a shy girl by any means; it was merely her instinct to draw the line dividing the seen from the unseen higher than they do it in towns.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!” By this time Pearl had reached the margin of the brook, and stood on the further side, gazing silently at Hester and the clergyman, who still sat together on the mossy tree-trunk waiting to receive her.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another—a quiet, shy man with a beard—whom I didn’t know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
She repeated the little verses musically, like a song, and the entreaty of the flowers was even softer than the rest, as the shy speech of flowers might be, and she ended with the voice suspended, almost with a rising inflection.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
When Akut was by, the small folk kept their distance, but with Korak they were less shy and when both the males were gone they would come close to Meriem, tugging at her ornaments or playing with Geeka, who was a never ending source of amusement to them.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with SHY (3)

I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that make it even luckier? He pulled her cl…
George R.R. Martin A Storm of Swords
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Brad Meltzer
Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.
Megan Webster
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 610 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).