timidity
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More timidity to observe, more vulnerability in defence, more powder-puff stuff up front, more wide men running in ever decreasing circles.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
That timidity angered two of the team’s main supporters groups, who canceled viewing parties, travel to road matches and other game-related events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
But this is not the time for judicial timidity.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Holt became the team captain in the media’s game of feigned ignorance and real timidity.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a combination of great disasters, great stupidities, great timidities could ever allow war to come so close to U.S. shores.
From Time Magazine Archive
This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is often weak and reluctant, riddled with timidities, or moth-eaten with worldly ease.
From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett
Vocabulary lists containing timidity
The Devil's Arithmetic
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