Sample Sentences for
timorous
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    to confide in him - timorously  (source)
    timorously = timidly
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    Her voice was at once lusty and timorous.  (source)
    timorous = timid or shy
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    She moved, I have been told, like a lovely colt when she thought herself unwatched; as timorously as a rabbit when she felt her husband's eye upon her.  (source)
    timorously = timidly
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    He told her that for some time he had assisted at the meetings of an Irish Socialist Party where.... The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous;  (source)
    timorous = timid (fearful)
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    ...the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist,  (source)
    timorously = timidly
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    But we must betray Hepzibah's secret, and confess that the native timorousness of her character even now developed itself in a quick tremor, which, to her own perception, set each of her joints at variance with its fellows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I know only that my entire being seemed to run at blind full tilt into something monstrous and immobile, with a shocking impact too soon and too quick to be mere amazement and outrage at that black arresting and untimorous hand on my white woman's flesh.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untimorous means not and reverses the meaning of timorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Until now those men were timorous as greenwood deer, light fare for jackals, leopards, wolves—wandering deer with no fight in them and no joy in battle.  (source)
    timorous = timid (fearful)
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    He felt the hand that had closed round his wrist with his disengaged fingers, and his fingers went timorously up the arm, patted a muscular chest, and explored a bearded face.  (source)
    timorously = timidly
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    She walks tentatively, as if blind, but her eyes are wide open, fixed upon DuPont with the timorousness, the tremulousness, the pale and silent appeal, which Simon — he now realizes — has been hoping for in vain.†  (source)
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    She coaxed her father out of his bitter moods, upheld her timorous and anxious mother, gently restrained her rebellious sister and had reached to draw an uncertain alien into the circle.†  (source)
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    In his former position it had been pleasant to ... pass through the crowd of petitioners and officials who were timorously awaiting an audience with the governor, and who envied him as with free and easy gait he went straight into his chief's private room to...  (source)
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    Babbitt tried to be jovial; he worked at it; but he could find nothing to interest him in Overbrook's timorousness, the blankness of the other guests, or the drained stupidity of Mrs. Overbrook, with her spectacles, drab skin, and tight-drawn hair.†  (source)
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