timorous
Seeing some huts we timorously tapped on the door of one.
To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous.
They sat in silence the entire time, occasionally asking timorously, 'Teacher, can you spell that again?''
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cowardly
be afraid of your own shadowidiom
bottle
bottle out
chicken
chicken out
cravenness
fainthearted
gutless
lily-livered
pantywaist
spinelessly
spinelessness
timid
timidity
timidly
unheroic
weak-kneed
wimp
wimp out
wimpy
Examples of timorously
timorously
It did not break in, or almost never, and very
timorously at that.
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Much more relevant is the situation in which the landlord
timorously fails to issue either an offer to sell or a notice of refusal; in other words, does nothing.
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