scaredy-cat
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A few of her picks include stencils for a fairy house, haunted house and a scaredy cat.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025
Next, he has voiced an unnamed Disney+ show, and will be in horror film The Queen Mary, starring Alice Eve, although he admits he's "a bit of a scaredy cat" and prefers thrillers.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2022
As Becky and Hunter’s brushes with death compounded, I kept flattening myself into my seat like a literal scaredy cat.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022
“I don’t want to always walk around like a scaredy cat, but then on the other hand, with this immune condition I have, I don’t want to take any chances.”
From Washington Post • May 17, 2022
Sticky, who happened to consider himself a prime specimen of scaredy cat, moved on without comment.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
