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timid

If a person is timid, he or she does not have the courage or confidence to complete something.

timid

showing fear and lack of confidence (= cautious) people who are fearful and cautious whitewater rafting is not for the timid (= faint, faint-hearted) lacking conviction or boldness or courage faint heart ne'er won fair lady (= diffident, unsure) lacking self-confidence stood in the doorway diffident and abashed problems that call for bold not timid responses a very unsure young man

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Simple sentences

New hires who just joined the company do everything in this timid manner.
The timid man trembled with fear.
Bob is very timid and blushes when chatting with girls.
The timid soldier was tormented by terrible nightmares.
Even though he has turned twenty, he's still too timid to chat with girls.
He is as timid as a mouse.
You're very timid.
Tom isn't timid.
Tom is very timid.
The rabbits are timid.
She's a very timid girl.
You know how timid she is.
Miss Pate felt timid about making a speech before a hundred people.
A mouse is a timid creature.
I did not think he was so timid.
He is more shy than timid.
He's very timid.
Oh, if only we could be as shy and timid in our shameful actions as we are in our proper ones!
She seems timid, but she's actually a strong-willed person.
I don't think he was so timid.
We're timid.

Movie subtitles

My wife doesn't care, but I'm a very timid fellow.
They're rather timid, Your Honor, and wish to be together.
Don't be timid.
If I were as timid as you seem to think, Mr. Holland. I wouldn't have gone to the tower in the first place.
You're too timid.
Especially timid people like yourself.
You help a timid soul across a crowded street.
Rice noodles, always timid and trembling.
It was some timid, confused youngster afraid of its own shadow.
And, above all, don't be timid.
You're a timid soul, aren't you?
I'm timid.
You're simply too timid.
They're timid little people.
But to guard timid heart I behaved haughtily, arrogant and gruffly, I talked about the sacrifice I would make for her more evil than self-mutilation and death.
I think it makes them timid. I think it makes them frightened when they're happy and sadder when they're sad.
They're rather timid, Your Honour, and wish to be together.
A rather timid approach this morning, don't you think?
That's all right. Don't be timid.
That's hard to believe after what happened last night. If I were as timid as you seem to think, Mr. Holland.
You help a timid little soul cross a crowded street.
This has made me rather timid, but in many ways it has its compensations.
Oh, I know, women are supposed to be timid.
HE is a nice, timid chap, not that young but much too naive.
Why so timid?
I'm a little timid about it.
In real life, you wouldn't dare. being as timid as you are.
Now, these are very timid, very retiring, non-aggressing.
Timid, but he's absorbed in the temple.
Does it sing? I find the graphics a bit timid, but I admit, it hangs on the wall.
A timid man, but a worthwhile one.
It's the same with the eyes, the timid Asian eyes always trying to hide something.

News and current affairs

One example of overly timid policies involves policing.
The progressive economist says that stimulus worked, staving off a much deeper recession - if not worse - but that the measures were too timid to generate a robust recovery.
Political pressure on Europe's central bank may be the reason for that timid move.
Nevertheless, governments have been very timid in advancing on this front, with the new Basel III rules taking only a baby step toward real change.
A couple of reforms were belatedly enacted: timid intervention on pensions and a further increase in labor-market flexibility.
This was a timid but helpful initial step in the right direction.
Given the fact that the last president, Muhammad Khatami, was a supporter of the reform movement - albeit a timid one who ultimately accomplished nothing - only underlines how thoroughly the rulers turned around the political situation.
But the leadership was too timid.
They are too timid.
On July 24, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin initiated the first act by fiercely attacking, without evidence, the timid owner of the giant coal and steel company Mechel for price-gouging and tax evasion.
Aznar's current plans are too timid: they tackle only public health expenditures, not the underlying welfare state structure.
All this has been horribly turned on its head; in place of our forebears' robust values, we substituted timid, frightened rationalizations for all sorts of voodoo ideologies and practices.
Unfortunately, many of the solutions on offer are either too timid or demand too much of a global leadership that is in short supply.
Too timid to undertake serious reforms at home, Japanese authorities fight to keep the yen's value as low as possible against the dollar and rival Asian currencies.
Despite warnings about impending horrors, action was timid.
He's an outsourced human-resources executive who flies around the country firing people on behalf of timid managers; she's a counterpart female road warrior.
While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May's timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts.
After deposing his father in a palace coup in 1995, Al Thani was suddenly confronted with a hostile Saudi Arabia and Egypt, whose elites despised the ambitious young ruler and preferred his more timid father.
They are either too cynical or timid in their vision of the world, or they have others priorities, or both.
For this model, as we have seen in Russia, leads to populist democracy and timid reform.

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