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  • 61propriety — noun 1) she behaves with the utmost propriety Syn: decorum, respectability, decency, correctness, protocol, appropriateness, suitability, good manners, courtesy, politeness, rectitude, morality, civility, modesty, demureness; sobriety …

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  • 62shyness — noun Gerald s shyness was often mistaken for disinterest Syn: bashfulness, diffidence, sheepishness, reserve, reservedness, introversion, reticence, timidity, timidness, timorousness, mousiness, lack of confidence, self consciousness,… …

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  • 63bashfulness — n shyness, diffidence, timidity, hesita tion, timorousness; modesty, reserve, demureness, coyness, unobtrusiveness; embarrassment, sheepishness, constraint, self consciousness …

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  • 64comeliness — n 1. prettiness, loveliness, beauty, pulchritude, handsomeness; fairness, attractiveness, eye appeal, allurement; charm, grace, glamour, appeal, win someness, Scot. bonniness; wholesomeness, rosiness, blossom, flower, glow, radiance; sightliness …

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  • 65diffidence — n timidity, timorousness, apprehension, faint heartedness, diffidentness; bashfulness, shyness, abashment, coyness, demureness; embarrassment, sheepishness; lack of self confidence, insecurity, reluctance, hesitancy, doubtfulness, backwardness;… …

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  • 66hesitancy — n 1. pause, break, stop, stopping, stop page, halt, hesitation, hesitance; cessation, ceasing, inaction, inactivity; discontinuance, interruption, suspension, suspense, postponement, deferment, deferral, abeyance, prorogation; delay, wait, stall …

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  • 67humility — n 1. humbleness, meekness, mildness; submissiveness, servility, subservience, obsequiousness, lowliness, lowliness of spirit or heart or mind, inferiority; obedience, subjection, resignation; self abasement, abasement, mortification. 2. modesty,… …

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  • 68modesty — n 1. self effacement, humbleness, humility, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness, unostenta tiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness, unambi tiousness; reticence, reticency, constraint, subduedness; reserve, retirement, retiring disposition,… …

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  • 69pose — I v 1. affect, attitudinize, act, play to, make a show of; assume, put on airs, Sl. put on the dog, profess; feign, pretend, fake, sham, go through the motions; bluff, deceive, dissemble, posture; show off, swank, be vain, talk big, boast. 2.… …

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  • 70self-consciousness — n self awareness, diffidence, shyness, bashfulness, abashment, modesty, coyness, demureness, backwardness; timorousness, timidity, fearfulness, apprehension; insecurity, lack of self confidence, hesitancy, reluctance, constraint; reserve,… …

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