shily

English

Etymology

shy +‎ -ly

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....

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shily in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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