timid

But around kids her own age, Bonnie is so timid she becomes aggravating to watch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

If there was a disappointment, it was the timid performance in the FA Cup semi-final against Chelsea at Wembley.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

But it was "far too timid" in view of "the damage and trauma caused by these practices", she added.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

“Before he entered politics, Wilson would describe the American people as ‘selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn and foolish.’”

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

In a timid voice she said, “Sir, Love Simpson’s young enough to be your daughter! She’s not more’n thirty-three or -four years old!”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

She'd eat me," said the spider, "and, anyhow, the competition on the wall is dreadful, and the flies are getting wiser and timider every season.

From The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

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

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

From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

The timider of the guilty pair drank unwarily, not knowing what was offered to him, and fell into a fit of coughing.

From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray

To give you a clue, recollect that he was the timidest of souls. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

I like to know what two observing eyes saw and the feelings that sometimes made the timidest heroes—sometimes cravens.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

But there is an Aunt Milly that Anne didn't seem to know about and, Claire, she is human—the dearest, sweetest, prettiest, timidest little thing.

From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott

Their timidest member’s announcement stunned them all to silence––left them hushed and speechless––not for an hour or two, but for the days that followed as well.

From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer

They made Cornelia feel as much at home with them on the summit they had reached, as she felt with the timidest beginners in the Preparatory.

From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells