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?’