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shyly, adv.|ˈʃaɪlɪ|
Also shily.
[f. shy a. + -ly2.]
In a shy manner; with shyness.
1701C. Wolley Jrnl. New York (1860) 55 Two other Ministers..who behav'd themselves one towards another so shily and uncharitably as if Luther and Calvin had bequeathed..their virulent and bigotted Spirits upon them. 1797T. Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxix. (ed. 2) 209 The buffalo cow shyly looks about her. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. vii. §5 Nations whose commodities are looked shily upon by merchants. 1867F. Francis Angling i. (1880) 58 A very killing plan when the fish are biting shyly. 1884Harper's Mag. July 209/1 Tadoussac..hides shyly behind its hills. |