timidity

Example Sentences

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That linguistic timidity —our inability to name what’s happening — is itself a form of complicity, and the result of a combination of fear and fecklessness.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2025

Jane, whose timidity is evident in the way she only reluctantly takes off her winter coat, behaves as though she’s been abducted by an overly solicitous kidnapper.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

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

Such impotence, such timidity in a grown man irritated the boy.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes