Example Sentences

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Many self-described scaredy-cats will face their fears, particularly with Peele’s films, because of the critical buzz and the cultural importance of a black filmmaker creating horror movies starring black people and tackling weighty issues.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2019

The less credence she gives the purveyors of these potshots, the more they’ll come across as the hysterical scaredy-cats they are.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2018

IT is rare on Madison Avenue to hear, at least publicly, suggestions that executives are scaredy-cats who are afraid to take risks.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2014

Macs, I claimed, were "glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy-cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work."

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2011

Add in the fact that horses did not like to be surprised, and you had thousand-pound scaredy-cats that saw danger everywhere.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz