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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shyness to" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English
It is not typically used in standard expressions or contexts. An example could be: "Her shyness to speak in public often held her back."
Alternatives: "reluctance to" or "hesitation to."
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Bishop, for her part, felt safe confessing her shyness to him.
One struggles to imagine him professing love without shyness to his own wife.
"There's a shyness to her and a desire to deflect attention onto others.
For most, work's toxic fumes trail into their personal lives, triggering everything from crippling shyness to aggressively antisocial behavior.
Fascinated by poetry, the inquisitive Mario fights through his shyness to ask Neruda how to become a poet.
Romanians are equated with Roma – hence the association with caravans and the shyness to appear politically incorrect.
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In another variant on this theory, the Saudi rejection could imply that the kingdom intends not to revert into shyness, but to adopt a more aggressive regional role.
'Shyness' refers to the tendency to be inhibited and awkward in new social situations.
"His father wanted him to get past his shyness and to be an extrovert," she said.
Further, loneliness may be related to shyness and indirectly to passivity [ 47] and it has been suggested to work with participation in the classroom instead of working directly with loneliness [ 47].
But it was also a legacy of childhood shyness allied to a single-minded determination to be the best.
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