timid

The unassuming and, at times, seemingly timid American is a very popular winner of what was unquestionably one of the best races of a long season.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

We’re conditioned to be cynical about these sorts of league investigations, that the dog very rarely catches the bumper, and if it does, the bite is timid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The long story short is that we haven’t traveled very far thematically since Thomas Jefferson said that timid men prefer despotism — although that was around 250 years ago.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

But de Brouwer said the EU was "timid" about enforcing the law.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

I thought the first swing might be timid.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

But anon, imbued With a sudden, bounding access Of passion, it relaxes All timider persuasion.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

Clark!" said Potts, "you're getting timider and timider.

From Cord and Creese by James De Mille

Often the little timider ones were called on to repeat the rhyme alone, without singing it, and then to sing it alone with the teacher.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Elizabeth P. (Palmer) Peabody

The proximity of the farm had had the effect of scaring antelopes and gazelles and the timider animals away from the neighbourhood.

From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang

At the top of the companion—ladder Melissa stood waiting for us, demure, but subdued, with a still timider look than ever upon that sweet, shrinking, small face of hers.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

With a great cry of the soul to that God it yearned and felt for through all the darkness and ruin which encompassed it, he laid his hand on hers with the timidest passing touch.

From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward

But the dragons are dead and converted into poor fossil ichthyosauruses, incapable of biting the timidest damsel or the most corpulent knight that ever came out of the Stock Exchange.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

The timidest one will turn and fight with every sign of fury.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson

Even the timidest soul dare not "stand pat."

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

Marion Jordan! the gentlest, timidest, most typical of young English girls!

From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird