timidity
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But this is not the time for judicial timidity.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Fear, panic and timidity rule the day, as they generally do.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
He spoke about a lack of intensity, desire and warned against timidity.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
Cannons and the bells made a cacophony of celebration as pro-Union Los Angeles threw off its timidity and danced in the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
In spite of his condition he had no timidity about inching forward a bit on the spodess floor of the living room.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"
From Time Magazine Archive
But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more mature meditations.
From Time Magazine Archive
What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.
From Time Magazine Archive
This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.
From Time Magazine Archive
The night and the things of life together were too great to admit of fine timidities or crude betrayals.
From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice
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