Exact Match:
- shyly
- in a shy or timid or bashful manner; "he smiled shyly"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- sheepishly
collapse - in a sheepish manner; "sheepishly he handed her back the money" related words >
- gingerly
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- with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
- in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket" related words >
- calculating,
- cannily,
- canny,
- careful,
- carefully,
- cautious,
- cautiously,
- charily,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- circumspectly,
- considerate,
- daintily,
- dainty,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- delicately,
- discreet,
- fastidious,
- guarded,
- guardedly,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- nervous,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- politic,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- safe,
- shy,
- shyly,
- slow to act,
- squeamish,
- tentative,
- tentatively,
- thorough,
- timid,
- timidly,
- timorous,
- timorously,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- warily,
- wary,
- watchful
- abjectly,
- anticipatingly,
- anticipatively,
- anticipatorily,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- apprehensively,
- aside,
- bashfully,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- behind the veil,
- between the teeth,
- covertly,
- diffidently,
- expectantly,
- expectingly,
- fearfully,
- for fear of,
- hopefully,
- humbly,
- in a corner,
- in a whisper,
- in an aside,
- in darkness,
- in hidlings,
- in secret,
- in suspense,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- keyed-up,
- meekly,
- modestly,
- mousily,
- nobody the wiser,
- on all fours,
- on bended knee,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- out of earshot,
- quakingly,
- quivering,
- secretly,
- shrinkingly,
- shyly,
- sotto voce,
- sub rosa,
- submissively,
- taut,
- tense,
- timidly,
- timorously,
- tremblingly,
- tremulously,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- undercover,
- underground,
- with breathless expectation,
- with due deference,
- with muscles tense
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