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Shrinkingly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a shrinking manner; as if shrinking away

    "That shy-looking fellow standing against the curtain at your right, with the brown mustache and broad forehead, is the New England sculptor whose forcible creations are known everywhere, yet he is almost shrinkingly modest, and he never, it seems, even in thought, has broken the injunction of "Let another praise thee, not thine own lips.""

Etymology

From shrinking + -ly.

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