Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted.
Causing fear or dread or terror.
Timid by nature or revealing timidity.
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Examples for "timorous "
Examples for "timorous "
1 When I observed that a housebreaker was in general very timorous ; JOHNSON.
2 The feeling in the city decidedly improved, although the Chinese were timorous .
3 In some sense, the religion of the timorous and uninquisitive is true.
4 I blew hot upon timorous counsels; I blow cold on rash ones.
5 There came presently a timorous knocking on the panels of the door.
1 He mastered his trepid nature as best he could, and stayed there.
2 Look at the poor little trepid creature, panting and helpless under the great eyes!
3 The keen eye of the in - trepid Wayne flashed fire.
4 Now it was he who became trepid , not understanding.
1 It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
2 There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
3 A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
4 The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful .
5 And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
6 The next instant I was in the midst of a fearful snowstorm.
7 There has been a fearful breakdown of internal civil order in Serbia.
8 The winter seasons in the Rocky mountains are usually fearful and severe.
9 The fearful nervous crisis which Vandover had undergone had passed off slowly.
10 Time to talk of fearful images in the lexicon of distance running.
11 A fearful scene appears in the deepest circle of the infernal abodes.
12 Suddenly there was a fearful scream in the rear of the building.
13 In the year 1578 a fearful epidemic devastated the city of Pavia.
14 Even in the broader ones the danger of being crushed was fearful .
15 The fearful curse of the country, however, is the belief in witchcraft.
16 He pointed out the fearful penalty attached to the favor she sought.
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