timid

This wasn’t a timid outfit in their Waldo jerseys—this team went out and took it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 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

Still the editor-in-chief of Runway, Miranda is working to smooth her edges to avoid causing a stir in an industry that no longer excuses mistreatment, even though her employees remain timid in her midst.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

Some letters—both his and hers—were confiscated for some timid expression of affection.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

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

From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James

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 Murray, David Christie

He was far, far timider than they thought!'

From Hard Times by Dickens, Charles

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)

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

It was always upon some perfectly innocent nothing, which the timidest son might have permitted himself, that the wrath of Darius overwhelmingly burst.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

My mean and abject spirit           Dost thou rebuke, O timidest of all,           Vanquish'd e'en by a woman, her who gave           For thee, her young fair husband, her own life!

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green

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 Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)