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Definition of Shyest
1. shy [adj] - See also: shy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shyest
Literary usage of Shyest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1809)
"i& this very epistle, is condemning the Jew* for, is their ing of the moral law.
Chap. ii. 22., 23. " Thw that shyest a man should not commit adultery^ dost ..."
2. Life amongst the Indians by George Catlin (1867)
"WILD horses, I have said, are the shyest animals of the prairies, and oftentimes
run in immense herds. The * i will generally run from the approach of a man ..."
3. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... no one is to be found at the inns: the Italians are very courteous; but the
men are, without exception, the shyest people in the world; and the women, ..."
4. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... no one is to be found at the inns: the Italians are very courteous; but the
men are, without exception, the shyest people in the world; and the women, ..."
5. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... no one is to be found at the inns : the Italians are very courteous; but the
men are, without exception, the shyest people in the world ; and the women, ..."
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