as in bashfulness
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Her skin—something known as Frubber, a porous patented blend of fleshlike elastic polymers—stretched over a structure of plastic and titanium, and there was no flicker of bashfulness.
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Celik seems attuned to such questions as a valid (if not necessarily revelatory) core for a play to circle around, but Cramer’s writing often feels caught between an exploration of comic diffidence and simply an expression of it.
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And that eye could see past Dorothy’s drab uniform and Cindy Brady pigtails, her tall girl’s diffidence and her sweet girl’s shyness, to the bombshell smoldering underneath.
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But in a state like Connecticut, where Democrats flipped seats in the most recent local elections, this timidity makes no sense.
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There are those who would write her off, and perhaps her timidity before America’s facilitation of Gaza’s destruction has earned that dismissal.
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Never a forward accused of timidness, his offside restraint is not down to any reluctance to make surging runs in behind.
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The Denver Post editorial is a master class in timidness and in saying nothing of import.
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The smile didn’t come immediately, but suddenly the shyness gave way and her smile stretched from ear to ear.
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Then the release, the arrival, the return to self, and a lazy, funny sort of shyness.
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Less money coming into government coffers also means fewer goodies for the population of Moscow, whose acquiescence Putin desperately needs.
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But the balance of risks has changed Europe’s era of acquiescence is over.
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Your Chinese colleague speaks softly in a meeting; is that cultural deference or introversion?
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Japan’s players, initially reverential to the point of deference in Zico’s presence, came out of their shells.
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Attraction is a function of parentage and looks and submissiveness.
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But for Coles, his indoctrination to law enforcement has been a different level of submissiveness.
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“Sheepishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sheepishness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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