shily
English
Adverb
shily (comparative more shily, superlative most shily)
- Archaic form of shyly.
- 1848, John Stuart Mill,
Principles of Political Economy, vol. 1, p. 138:- There are nations whose commodities are looked shily upon by merchants....
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References
- shily in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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