timid
Example Sentences
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The timid 12-year-old wore a Christmas sweater and laid his head on the table as Vazquez and the other women prepared his gifts.
From Los Angeles Times
“Action from policy makers has been nonexistent, timid or ineffectual. In tandem, corporate Canada has become beset by contentment and incumbency.”
Ella lives in the “state,” she runs afoul of the “party,” but skirting these details feels too timid.
From Los Angeles Times
It is the narrator’s own psyche, her ambition to eclipse a ghost and her yearning to be “anything but the timid, foolish creature” she imagines herself to be.
The poodle had become timid and was reluctant to leave Lee's side.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
