shrinking violet
Example Sentences
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The centenarian is remembered by his friends as a man with “impeccable diction” and gentle spirit, but he was no shrinking violet.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
Her co-star Oliver Reed - hardly a shrinking violet himself - memorably described acting alongside her as like "being run over by a Bedford truck".
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
No shrinking violet, this performer, and neither is the woman she portrays.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022
“Bobby’s not a shrinking violet, and Bobby made it extremely clear who he supported and why he supported him,” said Terry McGuirk, the team’s chairman and a decades-long fixture of sports management in Atlanta.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021
I mean his pa was purt close to Pap’s size and his ma wasn’t no shrinking violet of a woman neither.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
