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After Mika Baur swept Celtic in front on 47 minutes, they went into their shells and succumbed to a timid 2-1 defeat as Javi Rodriguez struck twice in three minutes.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

And it’s not as though Chick-fil-A is technologically timid.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

In real life, Laija García considers himself a timid, camera-shy guy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Looking at the long rough box, I spoke timid, in a mumbled voice.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

He was far, far timider than they thought!'

From Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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 tenderer and the timider of creatures Often desert the brood that has been handled, Or turned about, or indiscreetly looked at.

From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by An English Lady

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

It is said that outside the field of battle he was one of the timidest of men, and even submitted quite tamely to the insolence of his own servants.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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