Blushing
Blushing adjective - Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.
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Shrinking and blushing are semantically related in behaviour topic. In some cases you can use "Shrinking" instead an adjective "Blushing", when it comes to topics like cowardly, timid.
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- Shrinking Violet: Laura stutters her way through sentences and is almost always blushing.
Source: Webcomic / Wright as Rayne - Vale, the heroine, is a daydreamy, book-loving, fairly clumsy Shrinking Violet who is a Type B Tsundere and is prone to blushing.
Source: Adorkable / Fan Works - Vale Whitaker, the protagonist of the Hunger Games fanfiction Some Semblance of Meaning, is a Shrinking Violet who loves books (and wants to write her own), is very prone to blushing, and interestingly, has Type B Tsundere tendencies, as well.
Source: Shrinking Violet / Fan Fiction
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