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Sentence count:138+6Posted:2017-02-06Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bashfulcowardlycoydemurefearfulmeekreservedrestrainedretiringsheepishshyAntonym: boldSimilar words: timidlytimingoptimisticfrom time to timeamidhumidmidgetmidstMeaning: ['tɪmɪd]  n. people who are fearful and cautious. adj. 1. showing fear and lack of confidence 2. lacking self-confidence 3. lacking conviction or boldness or courage. 
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31. I always said that Halliwell was too timid by half.
32. The international community has been timid in taking a stand on such principles.
33. I should have been as timid as the girl herself, if she had looked at me!
34. The more timid personalities must be encouraged to take charge and to give orders.
35. Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
36. Many people are timid about eating pork cooked less than well-done.
37. She was just the boss's daughter, a rather timid and drab little thing in his estimation.
38. Muhammad Reza was timid, even gentle and self-questioning, quite unlike his twin sister, Ashraf.
39. They failed not because they were too timid but because they overreached.
40. My timid, yearning soul Was with a splendid radiance made whole.
41. On the phone, though, her client sounded timid, afraid, lost.
42. Her mother-in-law is a timid widow with a dull boyfriend.
43. Maybe it is they who are being too timid in their ideas and proposals.
44. She was the glamorous, daring one-Muriel was the younger, timid, plump, solemn younger sister.
45. When she found it she was too timid to go to the front door so she peeped in the window.
46. Some of the men inside the hut had peered out like timid ghosts.
47. Many riders we hear about seem unjustifiably timid about taking themselves and their horses off across the countryside.
48. Others would see the acceptance of this bounded walking environment as timid and pusillanimous.
49. But then, Shyamalan is not an individual who could ever be described as timid.
50. Linen, we all know, crushes as easily as timid love; she looked uncrushable.
51. The consequence was a timid but hard-headed daughter Sethe would die to protect.
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52. It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out.
53. Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest.
54. But soon nervous, timid seals tended to live longer than trusting ones, so gradually seals grew more and more wary.
55. Again and again and again, the wordless timid sounds of anguish continued.
56. In the same way it can reassure a timid lover, or comfort a woman weak from childbirth.
57. The prosecuting counsel said that nothing would be heard to criticise the victim's character, who was timid and nervous.
58. In addition, they may be timid in expressing their anger-they seem always to want to please.
59. Decker knew that the senior officer was wrong, but was too timid to tell him.
60. But his timid approach has left him vulnerable to attacks from all sides.
More similar words: timidlytimingoptimisticfrom time to timeamidhumidmidgetmidstmiddaymiddlemidnightmidsummerformidableat midnightmiddle-classmiddle groundsemidetachedmimiclimitsimileimitatelimitedsimilaranimismdiminishminimizediminishedfacsimileeliminatesimilarly
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