timidity
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And no one is better equipped to ignore counsels of timidity than Mr. Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Choices, of course, have to be made, and timidity won’t get the job done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
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
But this is not the time for judicial timidity.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
“The view is so grand that all timidity left me and my watch on the movement of the car was abandoned.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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 a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.
From Time Magazine Archive
But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Everywhere cunning, everywhere small feuds and hatreds, distrusts, dishonesties, timidities, feebleness of purpose, dwarfish imaginations, swarm over the great and simple issues....
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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