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timorousness
noun as in diffidence
noun as in humility
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noun as in retiringness
noun as in shyness
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noun as in timidity
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noun as in timidness
Example Sentences
Some Charlie Hebdo survivors accused the media of failing to support the weekly and lamented growing timorousness in France over freedom of expression.
The Club for Growth, a small-government think tank, often criticizes the timorousness of the Republican establishment, and it has been critical, too, of this year’s insurgents.
It’s not that her timorousness doesn’t make sense, given events, but she’s so relentlessly belittled, in both the writing and direction, that it’s hard to have any real sympathy for her.
The kids were coerced into confessions, later proven to be false, by the same police force Donald Trump insisted had been intimidated into politically correct timorousness.
He was staking all on the cast of a die; it would never do to risk failure by timorousness in using all his effective combatant strength.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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