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• He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.From the entry pulpit
• The comedy club's audience was known for hooting down timid performers.From the entry down
• He burned his fingers in the stock market and has been timid about investing ever since.From the entry burn one's fingers
• My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.From the entry go
• The scientist was frightening the timid children.From the entry frightening
• The neuter voice is too reticent, too timid—too unjust—to be audible.2016, David Appelbaum, In His Voice: Maurice Blanchot's Affair with the Neuter, page 26. From the entry neuter voice
• Brainish men are ambitious and incapable, while discreet men are timid and excessively conservative.2012, You-sheng Chen, LunYu - Confucian Analects in Chinese & English. From the entry brainish
• Introverts tend to be closed, timid, cautious, and prone to pessimism.2011, Barbara Killinger, Achieving Inner Balance in Anxious Times. From the entry forethinker
• I was the timid boy, but now developed in the Sigma Male.2010, Sergio J.L.H. Sanders, Life Medsᵀᴹ, Breakfast & Orange Juice, page 53. From the entry sigma male
• A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.2005, Jeremy Hoemsen, Okanagan University College, Bible Prophecies Revealed. From the entry gentlesome
• I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.1999, “IV.8”, in Mike Mitchell, transl., Simplicissimus, Dedalus, translation of original by HJC von Grimmelshausen, published 2016, page…. From the entry cheapjack
• Of course, some people simply are too timid to go to unfamiliar places.1997, Phillip C[raig] Schlechty, “[Leading the Change Process] Stay-at-Homes”, in Inventing Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational…. From the entry stay-at-home
• People who were timid and liberals who overrespected him, old man William treated icily.1997, Jere Hoar, “The Incredible Little Louisiana Chicken Killer”, in Body Parts, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN…. From the entry overrespect
• Short and shy, he seems timid as he looks out through coke-bottle glasses.1989 March 1, Ben Tierney, “High-profile Dissident a Quandary for Beijing”, in Montreal Gazette. From the entry coke bottle
• With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry lollop
• He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine. From the entry blush
• And Nissenson describes momentous events in timid, unvivid terms, when they should reveal something about Schiff’s inner life.2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times. From the entry unvivid
• Such a suggestion—even a timid one in her own head—would have been met with a brimful of scorn.2002, Hayley Ann Solomon, A Scandalous Connection, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry brimful
• Ratfolk are timid by nature and Singe was trying to make her own way outside her native society.2002, Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies: A Garrett, P.I., Novel, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry ratfolk
• There are actually some preachers who are timid about urging people to give a good revival love offering.2000, Hugh F. Pyle, What Every Preacher Should Know!, →ISBN, page 307. From the entry love offering
• Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math.1999, Elizabeth Berger, Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Integrity in Children, Rowman & Littlefield, published…. From the entry slave away
• Workers may be so concerned with reading the boss's mind and supporting group consensus that ideas become conservative and timid.1986, Jon P. Alston, “The Individual and the Work Group in Japan”, in The American Samurai: Blending American and Japanese Managerial…. From the entry me tooism
• Those little cherogrils, or chief-rabbits; tiny, timid, defenseless.1947, Day, Richard Ellsworth, The Borrowed Glow, Philadelphia: Judson Press, page 226. From the entry cherogril
• Timid young men men became bold for the occasion and, bowing before the young women, selected their dinnermates.1925 February 10, “Dinner Sociable at Baptist Church: Dr. Hunt Dances Jig. Rev. Stewart and Dr. Stewart Speak”, in The Bucknellian, volume…. From the entry dinnermate
• His play is a timid appeal to gushy sentiment.1905 September 23, The Playgoer [pseudonym], “The Stage”, in Theodore F. Bonnet, editor, Town Talk, volume XIV, number 682, San Francisco…. From the entry ladilike
• There will be no rocking back and forth on pigeon-toed feet, while my face flushes with the blood of a thousand timid bishies.2012 January 24, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck, archived from the original on 01 May 2022. From the entry bishie
• Even though most bats are small, timid creatures, something about those leathery wings and tiny fangs seems to trip our self-preservation alarms.2011, Linda S. Godfrey, Monsters of Wisconsin, page 37. From the entry chiroptophobia
• He is too timid and bystanderish.1973, Russell Sage College., Studies in the Twentieth Century, Issues 11-1. From the entry bystanderish
• The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.1907, Edmund Gosse, A short history of modern English literature - Page 78. From the entry poetling
• The timid among them declared that he would burn the houses and hang all that had bent the knee to King Louis.1905, Max Pemberton, The Hundred Days, page 137. From the entry bend the knee
• But timid, feverish, locoed people, whose jedgment is bad an' who's prone to feel themse'fs in peril; they're the kind who kills.1902, Alfred Lewis, Wolfville Nights. From the entry jedgment
• Alex Chalk, the cool Sunakite justice secretary, has just abandoned Dominic Raab’s “British Bill of Rights”, which was itself a rather timid attempt to curtail the European court’s powers.2023 June 30, John Rentoul, “Defeat over the Rwanda policy is a disaster for Sunak”, in The Independent, page 25. From the entry Sunakite
• But as Australian companies take their first timid steps towards installing non-proprietary software on corporate desktops, defenestration is starting to be linked to the throwing out of Windows software.2005 December 1, D. Braue, P. Gray, L. Colquhoun, J.-V. Douglas, “Leaders of the pack”, in MIS Asia: Managing Information Strategies…. From the entry defenestration
• It is to gain respect from unknowing underlings, and to possess the image of power that can rule over those who are the fearful or timid nonchallengers of bureaucracy.1999, James H. Boren, How to be a Sincere Phoney, page 15. From the entry nonchallenger
• Even a knocked-about old palomer like me has seen enough o' men to ken when a one's too timid an' eagersome to stand by a lie.1960, Analog Science Fact, Fiction - Volume 66, Issues 2-6, page 29. From the entry eagersome
• What shall be the effeminating effect upon the rising generation if the brave men of today are to be mammaed by a crew of timid Supervisors?1905 May 7, “The Lancer”, in Los Angeles Sunday Times, volume 47, number 155, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times-Mirror Company, →OCLC, part…. From the entry mama
• There is "Red Light" Smith, a timid thief who pulled a respectable burglary some years back, but was caught when he stopped for a red light in making his getaway.2002, Charles Kuralt, Ralph Grizzle, Charles Kuralt's People, page 322. From the entry jumpup

Meaning of timid

1. adjective Lacking in courage or confidence.

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How do you use timid in a sentence?

Timid is used as an adjective. For example: “John's a very timid person. I doubt he'll be brave enough to face his brother.”

What is a short sentence with timid?

“He is too timid and bystanderish.”

What does timid mean?

Timid means lacking in courage or confidence.