scaredy-cat
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Horror fans and those who like to be in the know must see it, though if you’re a scaredy-cat, maybe watch this one during the day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
During wilderness orientation in Canada, Naomi said she was the "biggest scaredy-cat - I vocalised my nerves" and thinks this made others write her off.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
I honestly didn’t expected it to, as I’m a complete scaredy-cat — I have never been able to handle any “Resident Evil” game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2021
“For many years, when we were young, I saw Randy as an inexplicable burden. He was a nuisance, a scaredy-cat, and a crybaby.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2020
Aru thought it seemed like a scaredy-cat thing to do: decide not to move on just because it was bound to be hard.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Many self-described scaredy-cats will face their fears, particularly with Peele’s films, because of the critical buzz and the cultural importance of a black filmmaker creating horror movies starring black people and tackling weighty issues.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2019
The less credence she gives the purveyors of these potshots, the more they’ll come across as the hysterical scaredy-cats they are.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2018
In addition to assorted nut-cases and scaredy-cats, “The Old Dark House” is well-stocked with warped mirrors, gargoyle banisters and a canine statue suggesting the Egyptian god Anubis.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017
Macs, I claimed, were "glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy-cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work."
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2011
Add in the fact that horses did not like to be surprised, and you had thousand-pound scaredy-cats that saw danger everywhere.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
