Which is correct:
"bashful" or "prideful"?

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bashful

More popular!

11,400,000 results on the web

Some examples from the web:

  • This bashful beauty is my mom, Carmen.
  • I hope you're not a bashful bladder.
  • Anita... and her bashful Beethoven!
  • But the sound of you being all kind of bashful and sweet on the phone does hold a certain allure.
  • Seriously, I wouldn't be so bashful about my most deeply-held beliefs.
  • You haven't turned bashful on old Hollis.
  • Why so bashful all of a sudden?
  • I've seen you in a towel before, don't be bashful.
  • So, they finished that. And I, as you can tell, am a bashful guy.
  • Colin's too bashful to mention it, but he's a whiz at card tricks.
  • Of course, I know that my cousin's refusal naturally springs from her bashful modesty.
  • Well, I'm not bashful, but I've never kissed you before, and I don't think this is exactly the place.
  • This - this bashful beauty is my mom Carmen.
  • Refusal! With Lizzie, that does not mean bashful modesty!
  • Whether I call you Hsiao-tsing or Windy there's no need to be bashful
  • He's kind of bashful, isn't he, Mama?
  • Still, I'll keep my eye on the billboards... and maybe one day you'll do a piece... on how you became someone in between the bashful, brunette Nancy Brown... and the cool, blond Barbara Novak.
  • Hence, bashful cunning, and prompt me, plain and holy innocence.
  • - Don't be bashful about it.
  • You've never been bashful about going through people's belongings.

prideful

3,290,000 results on the web

Some examples from the web:

  • And second of all, don't be so prideful.
  • You're more prideful than you used to be.
  • I think you're impulsive and prideful.
  • I'm not a prideful person.
  • You know, the local police - sometimes they're just too prideful to admit they need help.
  • You're just too prideful to admit it, but that's okay.
  • I've been prideful, vain, unkind,
  • I do not mean to sound prideful, but I want to make an impression.
  • So, Lucille takes a train on up to Santa Fe, while her husband, Levi, while being too prideful to accept the Governor's largess of a few train tickets decides to travel by way of a buckboard with his brother Jacob.
  • If I seem prideful, it's only because I love the work I do.
  • How does a good-hearted person who only means well become so prideful and pigheaded?
  • I see now that I was prideful.
  • I see now that I was prideful.
  • You were expressing your own prideful ignorance.
  • I'm not a prideful person.
  • Well, they're prideful people.
  • You were always very prideful, Charlie, even as a kid.
  • It might be a little prideful of me, but I felt bad for you, too.
  • That's quite a prideful thing.
  • And Christina has always been too prideful and too unstable to accept that.
A complete search of the internet has found that "prideful" is the most popular phrase on the web.

Last updated: May 28, 2017

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