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How to pronounce bashfulness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abashment
Type of embarrassment
Derivation bashful

Examples of bashfulness

bashfulness
With becoming bashfulness, Woody refuses to boast about his latest achievement.
From the time.com
This is the story of how awkward Ollie overcame his bashfulness to win fair Octavia.
From the newscientist.com
It's a rare sign of bashfulness in the newly minted multimillionairess.
From the time.com
The linebackers, without hesitancy or bashfulness, shouted out the plays and their calls.
From the omaha.com
Bashfulness, once prized as a virtue, became a sign for medical concern.
From the washingtonpost.com
It is, however, the type of bashfulness that only adds to his charm.
From the kansas.com
When the kids would notice they were on screen, a little bitty bit of bashfulness would ensue.
From the kansas.com
So we are back to watching the courts and waiting for the bashfulness of some of the major players to pass.
From the independent.co.uk
Olivia Chaney, a dungaree-wearing young Englishwoman with a bit of Drake's posh bashfulness, is better.
From the independent.co.uk
More examples
  • Abashment: feeling embarrassed due to modesty
  • (bashful) self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
  • (bashful) disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
  • In humans, shyness (also called diffidence) is a social psychology term used to describe the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar ...
  • (Bashful (character)) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. ...
  • (Bashful (film)) Bashful is a 1917 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
  • The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity
  • (bashful) this sense?) inclined to avoid notice
  • (Bashful) wears a steel blue tuque that stands on end and has a thick, white beard that reaches to about knee-length, roughly the same length as Sleepy's beard. He appears to have the second largest nose out of the Dwarfs and wears a yellow-orange jacket with tan patches. ...