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timorously
adverb as in fearfully
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Example Sentences
She lay perfectly still and quiet, and now and then heaving a deep sigh, and timorously opening her eyes.
His voice sank to a whisper, and he glanced about timorously.
"You'd better not go over there, Charles," we advised him timorously.
Agnes walked timorously through into the square, empty, gas-lit hall, and looked round her with distaste.
Still the rebellion would have crouched timorously and silently on the ground if it had not found a support in the nobility.
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to timorously, such as: nervously, timidly, apprehensively, diffidently, in alarm, and in fright.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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