He smiled shyly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : I am a bit shy of that sort of person. ,shy of funds. ,still a few dollars shy of our goal; an inch shy of being six feet. From Dictionary.com.
He's friendly, kind of shyly sweet and really not very charismatic. From Wordnik.com. [Forget The Prez Race -- The Real Oregon Contest To Watch Is Colorful Senate Primary] Reference
He blushed and greeted her as she passed shyly by. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
"Nor boys like you, Tom," returned the girl, shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
"You've got your mother and sisters," said Mona shyly. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
"Until then, my face was not known," he recalls shyly. From Wordnik.com. [The Barcelona Way] Reference
Dorothy, and said shyly, "Nice to have met you, Dorothy.". From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
All the guys were silent, most of them shyly looking down. From Wordnik.com. [Measures] Reference
We kissed for the first time, shyly, giggled some more. From Wordnik.com. [Perfect] Reference
After a short silence, Edith looked at him shyly and said. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Have a look at that, he said shyly, before leaving my house. From Wordnik.com. [Takes One To Know One: A Masterful Irish Novelist] Reference
"We've got seventy cents in our banks," said Augustus shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"Teacher" he shyly slipped them into Chicken Little's basket. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
"It's only a note from Laura; I can't wait," said Nettie shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
She lies turned to one side holding her eye and shyly laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Inaccrochable] Reference
"Sometimes women say impudent things," he says, shrugging shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Hola, Oprah. It's Padre Alberto.] Reference
The next morning she came to my studio door and looked in shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
James shyly waited until he was at the counter to reply. From Wordnik.com. [t let Your Daughters Grow up to be Cowdykes] Reference
"How much are they?" she shyly asked the girl behind the counter. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
"I wish you would stay with me, Grace," said Eleanor rather shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
On the pavement outside, the wretched couple came up to her shyly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Ascending once more, she tapped at the door and then slipped shyly in. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"I had some lunch of my own," she shyly offered the neatly tied-up box. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Is that "appeasement" we see sidling shyly out of the closet of history?. From Wordnik.com. [Appeasing Russia] Reference
She put out her hand shyly and reluctantly, and he took it in both of his. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
I, half shyly, half through dread of talking, went on counterfeiting sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
"No, I reckon I've made noise enough for one evening," replied Judd, shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
And I pointed shyly at the green Suburban that waited on the street behind me. From Wordnik.com. [The Game] Reference
He looks up from his Financial Times and smiles shyly at me from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman on the Train] Reference
She looked up at him shyly, from under her long lashes, and blushed just a bit. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Barbara was tugging the shirt down on the cover and looking shyly at the camera. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Superman] Reference
"Well, it is interesting, Bob, and I do like it," she said, looking at him shyly. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Putin takes the proffered hand, smiles shyly, thanks him and moves on down the line. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Road Trip] Reference
Chicken Little looked around to find Pat Casey standing shyly beside her, cap in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
"Oh, you're Mr. Trevannion," said the "insult," shyly holding out a gloved right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Overhead was a tender sky, grey stealing shyly away to give place to a soft still blue. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
Bart had this way of looking at you out of the side of his eye, shyly, with his face down. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 4] Reference
Grok extended a hand to Maria, who smiled shyly at him, then blushed. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to Malta, from the novel "Grok"] Reference
(As usual, his very pleased mother was at this week's show, bowing shyly as she met guests.). From Wordnik.com. [An Established Designer With the Eye of an Upstart] Reference
Patrick anxiously inquired, and Eva shyly admitted that, thus supported, she might not be dismayed. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
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