timorous

Example Sentences

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Haynesville companies are being more timorous than before because they need to hit their returns on investment, lest they lose hard-won investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025

Somewhat along the lines of Mickey and Goofy or Popeye and Olive, Cuphead is the troublemaker and rule-breaker who drags his more timorous brother, Mugman, into continual misadventures.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

An outwardly gentle soul, but with a spine of steel, Fred was never too timorous to lay bare our view on public affairs, including public corruption and injustices.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

He was small in stature, timorous and shy by nature.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye