shily

English

Etymology

shy +‎ -ly

Adverb

shily (comparative more shily, superlative most shily)

1. 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.