timorous

Example Sentences

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Orange County’s chief health officer quit after receiving death threats and little backing from a timorous Board of Supervisors.

From Los Angeles Times

India’s “surgical strikes” in 2016 in response to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in Kashmir burnished the prime minister’s reputation for breaking with a timorous past even if the military damage done by these strikes was disputed.

From The Guardian

Reade, deluged with messages of encouragement and threat, was by turns timorous and combative.

From Seattle Times

It’s remarkable that, as robust a presence as she is, she convincingly plays a timorous victim.

From New York Times

Yet something about their emotional makeup allowed Reichl and Levine to muddle through circumstances that would have felled more timorous souls.

From Washington Post