Synonyms for shy away from
shy away from

Princeton's WordNet

1. shy away fromverb

   avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task

   "I shy away from this task"

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1. Terrell Suggs:

   You’re naturally the villain when you go into an opponent’s stadium, anyway, you might as well not shy away from it. You might as well bask in it and enjoy it. I’m not supposed to be the opponent’s favorite player. You’re not supposed to like me. I don’t play for you. I represent Ravens Nation. I just enjoy it.

2. Noura Hussein:

   People shy away from this conversation in Sudan, it's a taboo, i hope that people will now feel comfortable to speak about to their parents and grandparents about it.

3. Dynasty Star Willie Robertson:

   What is this country coming to where like the coach out in Washington can’t say a prayer… I’m kind of with the Founding Fathers of the country who were strong believers that you know this whole country was founded on our Christian faith and so they didn’t shy away from it, I won’t shy away from it and if you get fired, you get fired. Some things are worth losing your job over.

4. Anjem Choudary:

   If people are implementing the Sharia, then I cannot shy away from what the divine text says in relationship to that, if you cannot say when you believe in something and you cannot share that view, then you don’t really have freedom to express yourself in this county.

5. Sean McElwee:

   She had an actual campaign strategy that revolved around ICE, and it was very smart, because( incumbent Rep. Joe) Crowley was weak on immigration and she knew that he would never be able to get where he needed to be to win that primary, so she just hammered him on it. She didn't shy away from saying it. She put it in her ads. She ran on the issue. She challenged him in the debate. I think' Abolish ICE' is where it is today because of her leadership.