The phrase "a bashful man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is shy or easily embarrassed in social situations.
Example: "At the party, a bashful man stood in the corner, avoiding eye contact with others."
Alternatives: "a shy man" or "a timid man."
"I came to feed my family, and myself," said Nouha Marega, a bashful man who is 32.
A bashful man (he could be a von Trapp sibling in "The Sound of Music") in a flannel shirt and tan work boots, Mr. Bell has himself come a long way from the kind of work he did as a graduate with architecture degrees from Princeton and Yale.
Gable was known in Hollywood circles as a "loner". Despite his brash movie roles and rugged, he-man appearance, the mustachioed actor was a bashful man who was nervous in crowds.
The young Japanese soldier Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a gentle baker who was conscripted into the Army and just wants to get back to his family, is meant to be a life-affirming figure among the death cultists, but, as constructed by the screenwriter, Iris Yamashita, he's a slight and bashful man who can't carry the philosophical weight assigned to him.
Upstairs, Michael, a bashful, balding man of 31 who works part time in the Larchmont Public Library, was tidying his already orderly room.
Some shops were said to be squeamish about displaying bras and the first editions were packaged in black boxes to make it easier for bashful men to sell, but the first 40 produced quickly sold out and in the second year sales were worth $500,000.
Mercer's L.A.-area neighbor Derrick McClendon, 42, similarly described a "bashful" and "timid" man who kept to himself.
Harper-Mercer, she added, "was always moving around... it's like he was always anxious or nervous". Derrick McClendon, another former L.A.-area neighbor of Harper-Mercer's, described him as a "bashful" and "timid" man who kept to himself.
It has been a surprising culmination of an already notable career that saw this quiet man with a bashful smile rise from a junior naval officer who interrogated Japanese prisoners during World War II to a founder of Japanese studies in the United States.
A highly self-contained young man, Smith has dark, puppyish eyes and a bashful smile.
But the scene is written in a bashful, gentle tone, while the explosion's aftermath is dispatched summarily: "Ten men died underground and because of the fire and the rock fall, rescue attempts had been abandoned".
