SHYLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shyly mean? 

• SHYLY (adverb)
  The adverb SHYLY has 1 sense:

1. in a shy or timid or bashful manner

  Familiarity information: SHYLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHYLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a shy or timid or bashful manner

Synonyms:

bashfully; shyly; timidly

Context example:

he smiled shyly

Pertainym:

shy (lacking self-confidence)

 Context examples 

She was not in the drawing-room when I presented Agnes to her little aunts, but was shyly keeping out of the way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Twice he bent and kissed her, and each time her lips met his shyly and her body made its happy, nestling movement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I expressed my pleasure in the contemplation of it, and little Em'ly was emboldened to say, shyly, Don't you think you are afraid of the sea, now?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The child, relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly into her mother's dress.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)