timid

How To Use timid In A Sentence

• Considering his height, then the steely look and his rough voice, both of which reminded me a lot of Carey, he was a rather intimidating person, even to me.
• But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
• From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid.
• Oh I forgot, the nice man intimidated her into signing the car documents over to him.
• Good luck to him: but there is no earthly reason why BBC radio should timidly do the same, and debauch one of our greatest programmes in the process.
• He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph.
• She spoke in a high but not unmusical note, very quickly, and with timid glances to either side of her collocutor. Eve's Ransom
• But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors.
• Any knowledge that I inquire is from the limited public sources that the APD can't suppress or intimidate. City of Aurora's Labor Union Negotiations Continue with Mixed Progress, Complaints and Counter-Complaints
• They have been miniaturized so as to make them less threatening or intimidating to their small owners.