look shy

English

Verb

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

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