timorous
adjective
full of fear; fearful.
timorously
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a word derived from
timorous.
Example Sentences
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“I came very late and timorously to the uses of power,” she wrote in her diary in 1968.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
We strut as a bully in the world but cower timorously at home.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2017
Sophie, I’ll venture somewhat timorously to say, ups her game a bit in her new screen incarnation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag.
From Time Magazine Archive
No matter how timorously her hand went up, Miss Briggs happened to see it.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
