(superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
(superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
(superl.) Cautious; wary; suspicious.
(a.) To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
(v. t.) To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
(n.) A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
(n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) The Vc was dramatically increased in the qk, slightly decreased in the shi, and close to control in the mld.
(3) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(4) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(5) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(6) In general, we've shied away from offering opinions on the rest of the industry – I don't think it's appropriate.
(7) Never camera-shy, he also leaves his legacy on celluloid too.
(8) On the other hand, if past experience is anything to go by, this government isn’t shy of a U-turn ; and, if Whittingdale and his advisers aren’t completely deaf, they may at least detect that he would do well to keep the relish out of his voice as he announces the steps he intends to take.
(9) It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it.
(10) And just a few games shy of making history, the Warriors blew a 17-point lead and fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves – another team that didn’t even come close to making the playoffs – after forcing the game into overtime.
(11) She was a little shy as a child, a big reader who loved movies as much as books and thought from an early age that she would be a writer.
(12) By contrast, in Shy-Drager cases there was a highly significant reduction in intermediolateral column cells compared with the normal cords.
(13) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
(14) A young, shy jihadi named Fouad took us into an abandoned building, where a meal was spread out on the floor.
(15) Sterling fell 1.3% against the dollar to $1.6495, just shy of a session low $1.6475.
(16) Estimates of panda numbers in the wild vary enormously due to the difficulty of collecting data about the notoriously shy animal, which lives in dense, high-altitude vegetation: the last survey required more than 35,000 volunteers.
(17) The move signals a change for Democrats , who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership.
(18) What's more, his genial stiffness and shy self-awareness give him a kind of awkward dignity compared to the preening smugness of Cruz.
(19) Pausing while much of the audience booed the protester, Obama responded: "We're not going to shy away from things that are uncomfortable."
(20) Another shy Tory, who teaches at a secondary school in north Kent, says she voted Ukip in the European elections.
Shyness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being shy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
(2) The results revealed that shyness and social phobia have a number of similar features.
(3) Examination of a number of major studies of personality questionnaires reveals the existence of a shyness factor which is related to but separable from both introversion and neuroticism, and which loads on items referring to feeling uncomfortable and self-conscious, and keeping in the background in certain kinds of social situations.
(4) Animals receiving low-intensity electrical stimulation of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala while drinking plain tap water were injected with toxic doses of lithium chloride to examine whether brain stimulation can serve as a conditioned stimulus in a bait-shyness paradigm.
(5) Furthermore, profiles of emotions experienced by youths with a depressive disorder differed significantly from emotion profiles of nondepressed youths on the following emotions: enjoyment, surprise, sadness, anger, shame, shyness, guilt, and self-directed hostility.
(6) They have an outrageously provocative nature that's combined with real shyness and awkwardness.
(7) Previously proposed personality correlates of passivity, shyness, and dependency were also in evidence.
(8) In conversation, he is a curious mix of openness and a sweet, faintly diffident shyness.
(9) Unexpectedly, the shyness of adolescents highly sensitive to an imaginary audience increased with age, possibly because they are unwilling to provide themselves with the social experiences necessary for decentering.
(10) Compared with findings in manic subjects, the dimensional score for Harm Avoidance was elevated in all affective groups, "worry and pessimism" was elevated in mixed-state subjects, "shyness with strangers" was elevated in depressed and nonaffective subjects, and "attachment" was lower in depressed and nonaffective subjects.
(11) Twenty-three volunteer subjects were compared with 23 (matched) control subjects on self and parental ratings of anxiety, depression, shyness-sensitivity, sleeping difficulties, perfectionism, psychosomatic problems (unrelated to headache), other behavioural disturbances, major life stress events and parental expectations (i.e.
(12) Love-shyness is believed to be the result of a genetic-biologically rooted temperament and learning experiences with peers and family.
(13) His teachers made accommodations for his painful shyness and he graduated with the grades and test scores that got him into Virginia Tech.
(14) These results support the self-presentational view that fear of being socially evaluated is pivotal to dispositional shyness.
(15) Discussion focuses on the implications of these data for the measurement and conceptualization of shyness.
(16) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
(17) Sex differences in the strategic use of shyness are discussed in relation to other research on sex differences in the etiology and correlates of social anxiety.
(18) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
(19) These findings suggest that the construct of shyness shows a strong continuity from preschool age through adulthood.
(20) Phase 2 compared the five shyness measures with one another on indices of internal consistency and with other relevant measures of emotionality, personality, relationships, and behavior.