bashfully
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more bashfully (comparative)
most bashfully (superlative)