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Shrinking violet   /ʃrˈɪŋkɪŋ vˈaɪəlɪt/   Listen
Shrinking violet

noun
1.
Someone who shrinks from familiarity with others.  Synonym: shy person.






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"Shrinking violet" Quotes from Famous Books



... run of comely womanhood. Always a lover of beauty, Mavis eagerly scanned the photographs in the book. To her tense imagination, it was like wandering in a highly cultivated garden, where there were flowers of every hue, from the timid shrinking violet and the rosebud, to the over-blown peony, to greet the senses. It was as if she wandered from one to the next, admiring and drinking in the distinctive beauty of each. There were supple, fair-petalled daffodils, white-robed daisies, scarlet-lipped poppies, and black pansies, ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte



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