Synonym: bashful, cowardly, coy, demure, fearful, meek, reserved, restrained, retiring, sheepish, shy. Antonym: bold. Similar words: timidly, timing, optimistic, from time to time, amid, humid, midget, midst. Meaning: ['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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61. The nation's newspapers are usually timid in criticizing the military.
62. They think I'm just a timid woman, but I'll show them they're wrong.
63. Ellie and I talked in the kitchen, whispering, both a bit timid.
64. Ralph's wife was a small, timid woman who hardly ever spoke.
65. Timid people always wreak their peevishness on the gentle.
66. The newspaper called the plan timid and unimaginative.
67. He is always timid and overcautious.
68. Don't be timid. You can behave without ceremony here.
69. Allen has a meek, timid, and unassertive nature.
70. The committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute.
71. Childlings sylphs are timid and flighty.
72. The least noise would startle the timid child.
73. He was not apprehensive or timid through his imagination.
74. She didn't like her husband to be so timid.
75. Whitewater rafting is not for the timid.
76. Into this important commercial region the timid Carrie went.
77. He was timid about investing money.
78. Oliver looked at Sikes in mute and timid wonder.
79. His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
80. Perhaps no adults knew, but the shy moon could see, the timid cicada might overhear, and of course, the heart itself unforgettably experienced.
81. But Yolanda Fernandez-Lommen, an Asian Development Bank economist in Beijing,(sentencedict.com/timid.html) said the proposed reforms were too timid to affect the share-out of income.
82. Life was combat, and victory was not to the lazy, the timid, the drugstore cowboy, the mush-mouth afraid to tell people exactly what was on his mind.
83. Some of the e-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
84. The apostle may be daring, but the bishop must be timid.
85. Alice normally a timid girl argued heatedly with them about it.
86. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because It'seems so.
87. I used to believe that this separateness was the exclusive problem of the timid, introverted shys.
88. Although he is mean to the goats, he is a and timid husband to Red Wolf.
89. Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren were both too timid to raise any outcry against Captin Black.
90. The timid and the fainthearted , and people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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