Describes a person's appearance or manner as showing embarrassment or shyness. Often used with に or な to modify verbs or nouns.
He looked down in embarrassment.
She smiled with a bashful look.
Alternate spelling using 気 for the suffix げ; less common but still encountered.
Formed from the stem of the adjective 恥ずかしい (embarrassed) and the suffix げ (appearing, seeming).