scaredy-cat
Example Sentences
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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
French winger Ousmane Dembele, for example, is a scaredy-cat, according to teammate Randal Kolo Muani, who said Dembele is frightened by the strays that roam the 33 acres surrounding France’s resort hotel in Doha.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2022
Well, I can’t help my love for scaredy-cat canines who are bedeviled by the scary and supernatural.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 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
