timorous

How To Use timorous In A Sentence

• There is still a strong impression that the party's political approach remains timorous and lacks creativity when it comes to figuring out new responses to old problems.
• There was no threat in that reach, nothing tentative nor timorous. CHAPTER 1
• Whenever or wherever I see you next time I won't be timorous or evasive.
• Er, they weren't asked by timorous analysts. @r4today. Apple announces record profits of $6bn as Steve Jobs hails 'phenomenal' sales
• At the moment, however, he is tackling arguably his most challenging subject, one which many lesser and more timorous artists would not dare contemplate for fear that it might ruin their fragile reputations.
• The turnstone, when surrounded by comrades belonging to more energetic species, is a rather timorous bird; but it undertakes to keep watch for the security of the commonwealth when surrounded by smaller birds. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
• Neil Gatland as Malvolio displays an austere exterior well suited to his bitter antagonism with Sir Toby and yet is very funny to watch when at last it cracks into a hopeful, timorous smile.
• The best departments will encourage an entrepreneurship of information and ideas, which in turn requires daring, not conformity, and a cool-eyed rather than a timorous attitude to risk.
• He was the most timorous person in that event.
• Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.