Usually means: Shyly, with embarrassment or modesty.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word bashfully:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bashfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. bashfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bashfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bashfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. bashfully: Wiktionary
  6. Bashfully, bashfully: Dictionary.com
  7. Bashfully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. bashfully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. bashfully: Rhymezone
  10. Bashfully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. bashfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. bashfully: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bashfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. bashfully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. bashfully: Vocabulary.com
  16. bashfully: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bashfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a bashful manner.

Similar:
timidly, shyly, unbashfully, shamefacedly, embarrassedly, abashedly, blushfully, demurely, sheepishly, guardedly, more...

Opposite:
boldly, confidently, assertively, courageously

Types:
sheepishly, timidly, reservedly, introvertedly, quietly, unassumingly, more...

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Similar:
timidly, shyly, unbashfully, shamefacedly, embarrassedly, abashedly, blushfully, demurely, sheepishly, guardedly, more...

Opposite:
boldly, confidently, assertively, courageously

Types:
sheepishly, timidly, reservedly, introvertedly, quietly, unassumingly, more...



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