- A quick throw
- Bashful
- Coy
- defective
- Demure
- Demure and withdrawn, from shandy
- Demure but flashy when Alf’s gone
- Drab and colourless
- Timid
- Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
- Timid
- Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily
discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.
- Diffident
- Shy or diffident
- Timid
- Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
- Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed
to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty;
shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
- humble self effacing
- Lacking confidence
- Timid
- Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
- Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's
own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by
modest reserve.