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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121. They have prevailed in a system that ruthlessly weeds out the timid and the scrupulous.
122. She resented KO Chung - mou's scornful tone, and his implication that she was a frail, timid creature.
123. The more she called her husband a wimp, the more timid he became.
124. Many timid types comfort themselves by imagining such characters. Many self-aggrandising individuals are happy to act the part for them.
125. Yet beneath the upper crust of French international companies French business is inward - looking and timid.
126. I' ve walked on the broken stone road by the lake in summer evening. My heart beats stronger than cicada sings. The quiet lake records my timid steps .
127. Near the door stood a mulatto woman, evidently a servant in the house, with a timid bearing and an emaciated face pitifully sad and gentle.
128. And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.
129. But giving in would be risky, too — especially for a president whom voters are starting to write off as a man too timid to take a stand.
130. And now I will no longer is the timid love snivelling aphasic, growth after I in this school confident singing belong to my song.
131. If someone was timid, I'd downplay my accomplishments because I didn't want them to feel uncomfortable.
132. Mo son mistrust of vision reign the direction of the orotund source see quondam, no and in a short while, then see whence standing of a timid Nuo to lad Qie of white dress.
133. And yet in the changes that time has brought about there are already many things that can help our timid novitiate.
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134. A long-tailed marsupial mouse, is found only in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This timid creature rarely ventures for from its nest.
135. The man whose virtue has no source except a purely terrestrial prudence will, in such a world, become an adventurer if he has the courage, and, if not, will seek obscurity as a timid time-server.
136. In the world which is eager for qickness and instant benefits, looking entad is considered as a kind of timid and overcautious behavior.
137. The gap between the right of the Republican party, which is providing the angriest critics of the reforms, and the left of the Democratic party, which thinks the proposals too timid, is unbridgeable.
138. The little girl is as timid as a hare, shy in the presence of strangers.
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