bashfully

Adverb

bashfully (comparative more bashfully, superlative most bashfully)

1. In a bashful manner.
   • [T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89
   • The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts