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Definition of Timidly
1. Adverb. In a shy or timid or bashful manner. "He smiled shyly"
Definition of Timidly
1. Adverb. In a timid manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timidly
1. timid [adv] - See also: timid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timidly
Literary usage of Timidly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Why do you hear me thus coolly, thus timidly ? Why do you cast those anxious
looks on each other? why hesitate? Maximin is a public enemy ! may his enmity ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"They stood for a moment like the lovers in Molière, eyeing each other timidly,
sadly, but there was no one to bring them together, to say the necessary word ..."
3. Choisy: A Novel by James P. Story (1872)
"He put out his hand timidly ; but Mr. Wales took it and held it a moment, while
he looked at the young man fully for the first time and noted his thin face. ..."
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