timidity
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And no one is better equipped to ignore counsels of timidity than Mr. Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
This push and pull between wilderness and civilized life, or wildness versus timidity, has preoccupied Brown for the duration of his career, and it is what brought Brown to his robot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
But this is not the time for judicial timidity.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Holt became the team captain in the media’s game of feigned ignorance and real timidity.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
With timidity, I placed the three volumes of Locke upon the heap of clothes, which little library rested there rocking atop the frock-coats and shirts.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.
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
But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"
From Time Magazine Archive
A thousand woodland influences, tender timidities, shy assurances, wooed her from her soul.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
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