Shying [adjective]
Definition of Shying:
unwilling
Synonyms of Shying:
● Slow
● Shy
● Opposed
● Afraid
● Averse
● Backward
● Doubtful
● Dubious
● Loath
● Sticking
● Balking
● Uneager
Opposite/Antonyms of Shying:
Sentence/Example of Shying:
She was shying off at a half circle; he was beating round her.
The policeman's paroxysm of fear and the horse's fit of shying were facts.
He was young, and had a bad name for shying and starting, by which he had lost a good place.
He was busy with the horses, who were shying first to one side and then to the other.
His father said, in a letter to me, that "he had seen him shying at sparrows with half-crowns!"
The shots had been too sudden, the shying of the horses too confusing for location.
You have not yet broken the wonderful son of the desert of shying, as you promised.
Whenever he is not shying at things, or reaching after a fly, he wants to do that yet.
I should like an equestrian statue of Puck not shying at a Zeppelin!
I have only to hear his bell, and I start like a shying horse.