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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

look shy en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To cast a suspicious glance on or at somebody; to mistrust.
    • ‘How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy on you, and you with a bad conscience and en empty pocket?’ 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 6:
    • The very Courtiers looked shy at it. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
looking shy Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looks shy Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
looked shy Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looked shy Tense=Past lexicographic