wallflower

• He considered with dismay the prospect of an evening spent alone with two couples, he would feel like a wallflower par excellence. —  Mary Balogh - A Masked Deception
• There was a crossing of two paths, just beyond a wide wallflower, and she had collided with another girl. —  Yon Ill Wind
• She would be left partnerless, feeling like a wallflower at her first ball. —  The Obedient Bride
• There was no such thing as a wallflower in Niniltna, of either sex. —  A Fine and Bitter Snow
• The most familiar way in which this plays out in fiction is the blossoming of the wallflower: timid and out-of-shape people take up martial arts and build muscle, lose the spare tire, acquire self-confidence and inner peace, and stride away with their fighting skills the least of what they've gained. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002

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