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His captaincy towards the end of his previous tenure was marked by criticisms of a timid approach that failed to bring the best from England's batting talents.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Herzl found Rothschild paternalistic and overly timid, “a decent, good-natured, faint-hearted man, who utterly fails to understand the matter,” as he wrote in his diary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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

She withdrew hers like a timid little animal and went back to her work.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

From Dreams and Days: Poems by Lathrop, George Parsons

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

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 Strang, Herbert

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

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James

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 Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

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 Howells, William Dean

As a rule, extreme vanity makes the timidest very bold in speaking.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

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

From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona

Some of the musicians jumped off the key when they saw my face, and one or two of the timidest señoritas let out a screech or two.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

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 West, Julius