timid
Example Sentences
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Ella lives in the “state,” she runs afoul of the “party,” but skirting these details feels too timid.
From Los Angeles Times
It is the narrator’s own psyche, her ambition to eclipse a ghost and her yearning to be “anything but the timid, foolish creature” she imagines herself to be.
The poodle had become timid and was reluctant to leave Lee's side.
From Barron's
Because her oeuvre is both so vivid and confoundingly strange, the interpretive frame proposed by the curators often feels frustratingly timid.
Quan’s natural effervescence, however, gave his characters an energy and spirit that defied the expectation that these geeks had to be timid or socially awkward.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
