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timidity

[ti-mid-i-tee] / tɪˈmɪd ɪ ti /




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And no one is better equipped to ignore counsels of timidity than Mr. Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Jamie Smith characterised England's timidity, playing not shot to be bowled by one Jamieson got to dart back.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

But this is not the time for judicial timidity.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

Holt became the team captain in the media’s game of feigned ignorance and real timidity.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 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 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

It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.

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

Only a combination of great disasters, great stupidities, great timidities could ever allow war to come so close to U.S. shores.

From Time Magazine Archive

A thousand woodland influences, tender timidities, shy assurances, wooed her from her soul.

From The Helpmate by May Sinclair


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