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....
References
- “shily”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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