timidity
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More timidity to observe, more vulnerability in defence, more powder-puff stuff up front, more wide men running in ever decreasing circles.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
But this is not the time for judicial timidity.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Fear, panic and timidity rule the day, as they generally do.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
Cannons and the bells made a cacophony of celebration as pro-Union Los Angeles threw off its timidity and danced in the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Anger had displaced timidity, and he was going to play shifgrethor with me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more mature meditations.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.
From Time Magazine Archive
But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a combination of great disasters, great stupidities, great timidities could ever allow war to come so close to U.S. shores.
From Time Magazine Archive
So many feelings, such varied timidities, urged them forward, yet held them back.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
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