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Shy person   /ʃaɪ pˈərsən/   Listen
Shy person

noun
1.
Someone who shrinks from familiarity with others.  Synonym: shrinking violet.





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"Shy person" Quotes from Famous Books



... not do to continue there, looking at her. She might be a very shy person, and if I appeared shy it would probably make her all ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton
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... suffered from shyness does not feel his heart sink as he drives up in a brougham to the door of some strange house, and sees a grave butler advancing out of an unknown corridor, with figures flitting to and fro in the background; what shy person is there who at such a moment would not give a considerable sum to be able to go back to the station and take the first train home? Or who again, as he gives his name to a servant in some brightly-lighted hall, and advances, with a hurried glance at his ...
— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson
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