(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.
Slyly
Definition:
(adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I think I am just sort of coming out of a dry period now," he remarks slyly.
(2) And now, suddenly and slyly, the goal has been switched to "energy security", which apparently means selling a temporary glut of fracked gas on the world market, thereby creating energy dependencies abroad.
(3) "Oh look," I observed slyly, "Minnie's done it and is climbing out."
(4) Saeed Kamali Dehghan Russia With anti-Americanism creeping back to the forefront of political rhetoric in Moscow, many in Russia slyly smiled when Romney this year called Russia "our No 1 geopolitical foe".
(5) Historians will one day describe the way our streets were covered with a flavoured polymer that we would suck and chew before spitting it out on to the pavement, slyly bunging it under a desk, or foisting it under a chair.
(6) It was a deliberate foul, slyly executed in the hope the referee would not see it, and Hughes was probably wise to remove his player a couple of minutes later, especially as Adam's final act was one of those ludicrous attempts from halfway when the opportunity was never on and the shot was wayward in any case.
(7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
(8) This professionally flippant, slyly populist voice, accepting of kitsch and able to rework it into unintentional comedy, has become the default style not only of TV reviewers but also of viewers.
(9) It is Ballard's beach read, designed to be picked up at an airport, consumed poolside and left, mottled with Ambre Solaire and disintegrating, its binding-glue long melted, on a shelf in the villa between the Dibdins and Rendells it is slyly constructed to resemble.
(10) Once Othello has determined to take revenge, Iago makes sure to prevent a "relapse", by slyly administering small doses of doubt and pity.
(11) When Abra, a telepathic child, pushes into his consciousness asking for help, Danny gets sucked back into the terrain of his childhood, battling a bunch of centuries-old serial killers disguised as RV-driving pensioners (it is sometimes easy to overlook how slyly funny King is) who literally feed off the pain of others.
(12) If the painters of the communist GDR wanted to register a protest against the oppressive state, they had to do it slyly, mock-classically, in code: Icarus, tumbling to earth after flying too close to the sun, like members of the dictatoriat deformed by power, was a popular symbol.
(13) Blakey had fashioned a more impassioned and dramatic drumming style out of the sometimes wilfully intricate materials of bebop percussion, an instantly recognisable mix of incandescent snare-drum rolls and slyly scattered rimshots.
(14) There won’t be any slyly selective intake, or opaque selection of sponsors.
(15) Whether people across Africa agree or whether, once again, Achebe may have slyly exposed a ruling elite is a question for history.
(16) 35 min: Holland try that clever corner so beloved of Alex Ferguson, one man slyly tapping the ball then wandering off, allowing some other dude to wander over and take up play.
(17) As my colleague Suzanne Goldenberg notes: Obama has slyly knocked climate change down a couple of notches from Bloomberg's endorsement, so that it's third behind "a strong economy" and "immigration reform" in Obama's version.
(18) Under the Rogers and Ruppersberger proposal, slyly named the “End Bulk Collection Act”, the telephone companies would hold on to phone data.
(19) One Harvard professor who was a graduate student under Marcy told BuzzFeed , “anybody of my generation in the field of exoplanets knows that Geoff does this.” And one of the complainants said his harassment was so well-known that “women discouraged other women from working with him.” Decades of work on sexual harassment later, and the best women can do to protect themselves, it seems, is to slyly warn each other away from predatory men.
(20) Several people caught up in the leak have slyly insinuated that some could be faked by alleged Russian hackers, while providing no proof that they’ve been altered.