fearfulness

Example Sentences

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In my office, clients cry in front of me and express their anger; they can get in touch with parts of themselves that have felt deep shame and fearfulness.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2024

For if there was one quality that most people will remember about the congressman from Bakersfield, it was his fearfulness.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023

Symptoms of this in children include chronic fatigue, anger, poor concentration and fearfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023

“My fearfulness of the wrongness of the act soon overwhelmed the happiness it brought me,” she writes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2021

It had taken a while to accustom herself to the bird, to end her fearfulness around it.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry