timidity
Example Sentences
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“Clemency,” they argue, “is more important than ever in an era of grossly excessive punishments and mass incarceration. Timidity is not a path to legacy.”
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2024
Timidity may feel like a way of avoiding risk, but it's actually the riskiest strategy of all.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2019
If Britain retreated from the tax policies that had provoked the Tea Party, they warned, the colonists would take this as "Proofs of our Weakness, Disunion and Timidity."
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2010
"Timidity," counters Lee Hamilton, chairman of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Timidity in the Flight Research Division would get a girl nowhere.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing timidity
The Devil's Arithmetic
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"Growing Up Asian in America"
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