shyly

adverb

shy·​ly

variants or less commonly shily

: in a shy manner

blinking shyly before the press cameras

—J. B. Boothroyd

listened shyly to the stranger

—H. A. Sinclair

spring steals in shyly

—D. C. Peattie

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