What's the difference between bashfully and shyly?

Bashfully


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a bashful manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
  • (2) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
  • (3) Last week Lebedev posted photos from his Hampton Court bash on his personal LiveJournal blog .
  • (4) In the end, Miliband's measures have a psychological effect not dissimilar to the youth-bashing policies that have come before: student fees, cuts to the education maintenance allowance and housing benefit for the under-25s , and the prioritising of private landlords at the expense of affordable housing.
  • (5) But at least it was offering something positive, not just bashing the Tories, like everything else.” But for many, it was symbolic of a vague and complacent Labour campaign strategy that would, ultimately, doom them to one of their worst ever election defeats.
  • (6) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
  • (7) They are the only party which has refused to be drawn into the immigrant-bashing competition with the others, and the only which proposes a vote in the general elections for EU citizens based on residency, rather than nationality.
  • (8) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
  • (9) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
  • (10) But Panmure's Zonneveld isn't so bashful - - he's got a target price of 570p.
  • (11) Jindal bashed the debate moderators to a crowd of roughly 50, saying: “The mainstream media lost the debate.” He went on to say that the GOP should take “a free market approach” to debates and “have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to”.
  • (12) OFFICE COST PER DESK $10,430 pa Banker-bashing rating ■ ZURICH PROS The financial sector accounts for 6% of all jobs in Switzerland and 16% of tax revenue.
  • (13) If it means bashing your head against the wall, or whatever.
  • (14) I thought bashing bureaucrats was purely my domain.
  • (15) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
  • (16) But I will also defend my record, and will not take lectures on “the politics of division” from parties that bash immigrants and those on welfare benefits, or from politicians disgraced by expenses scandals, discredited by lies told to justify war, and intent on scapegoating the vulnerable in our society for an economic crisis caused by the most powerful.
  • (17) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
  • (18) Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics , the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
  • (19) For many years afterwards, the family bashed their heads against a brick wall of indifference and worse.
  • (20) Debate moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez are sure to ask some tough questions of the candidates.

Shyly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a shy or timid manner; not familiarly; with reserve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Physically, he has a sort of wiry poise, often standing on the balls of his feet, but there is also something diffident, almost shyly polite, about him.
  • (2) As Mahoi visited one afternoon, Amidu waved shyly as Hawa bounded up, forcing her step-grandmother to shout out a reminder about the “no touching” rule in force in the town.
  • (3) These sort of questions shine shyly through the action of the film all the way through,” the critic wrote.
  • (4) Gudrun, 72, peers shyly from her voluminous hood and says while she loves Iceland – its cleanliness, beauty, the proximity of hot springs, volcanoes, glaciers – it can't possibly be the best place in the world for women "because we don't get the same salary as men".
  • (5) (Because obviously, no one minds if you win or lose a game of football – and at the full-time whistle, after meditating for a while, the players pool their wages with the fans, before shyly retiring to their modest homes and ascetic lifestyles.)
  • (6) Photograph: Caterina Clerici “How much is a photo?” a South Asian lady in shalwar kameez asks, her husband shyly observing Saira next to her.
  • (7) Moments earlier, the girls had been saying shyly that they did not have any views about the 12 cooling towers and Britain's tallest chimney, which pumps out the country's largest single carbon footprint right in front of their kitchen window.
  • (8) Indeed, he began a farewell tour, waving shyly as crowds of supporters, two thousand of them at the opening rally in Cardiff, chanted his name.
  • (9) Amid the hanging flower baskets and stone fountains of a picturesque small market town in Provence, the new young face of the French far right meandered from stall to stall, smiling shyly.
  • (10) "You should let your wife speak for herself," a bearded activist tells an older man who smiles shyly.
  • (11) The tepid sunshine wobbles in, polishes his shabby brogues, moves shyly across the surface of the dressing table.
  • (12) He groped about for ages and then grinned shyly, 'Aiya, I forgot to bring it.'
  • (13) I asked one of the quieter children for his thoughts, and he pondered silently for a moment, shyly biting his finger.
  • (14) Deputy editor John Pringle remembered Astor “listening attentively with a smile on his handsome, boyish face, occasionally brushing his hair off his forehead with a characteristic gesture, and sometimes intervening shyly but effectively”.
  • (15) Channel 4's controller of film and drama stayed shyly in her seat as the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire took to the stage at Los Angeles's Kodak Theatre last February to collect the Oscar for best film – one of the movie's eight Academy awards.
  • (16) "We stayed in touch so we could work together on fundraising and activism," she tells me shyly, "and now we will get married in the summer."
  • (17) I love her and she is my good match," he says in a soft accent, smiling shyly.
  • (18) Are you ready?” Four little boys, dressed in khaki trousers and polo shirts, came in together and huddled shyly.
  • (19) "As much as you deserve," was how Dave had reassuringly put it over their anniversary supper, "a take-away kebab," Nick shyly confided.
  • (20) The 33-year-old smiled shyly as she noticed my camera, before stopping as if to mount the bicycle to check its height.

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