timorous
Example Sentences
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Andrew Jay Schwartzman, a public interest communications attorney, said Carr is using his bully pulpit at the FCC to intimidate “a timorous broadcasting industry.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
Haynesville companies are being more timorous than before because they need to hit their returns on investment, lest they lose hard-won investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Even amoral or timorous lawyers will hesitate to misbehave if it becomes clear that doing so endangers their livelihood.
From Slate • Mar. 17, 2025
An outwardly gentle soul, but with a spine of steel, Fred was never too timorous to lay bare our view on public affairs, including public corruption and injustices.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021
Not even birds can pass them by, not even the timorous doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus; caught by downdrafts, they die on rockwall smooth as ice.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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