look shy

verb

To cast a suspicious glance on or at somebody; to mistrust.

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Meanings

verblook shy (third-person singular simple present looks shy, present participle looking shy, simple past and past participle looked shy)

present singular third person looks shy · participle present looking shy · participle past looked shy · past looked shy

  1. To cast a suspicious glance on or at somebody; to mistrust.

    The very Courtiers looked shy at it.

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
    1 more example

    ‘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
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