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timorous /'tÇmǝrǝs/ adj ( fml ) အသည္းငယ္ေသာ။ ေၾကာက္တတ္ေသာ။ timorously adv timorousness n [U]

Examples

1. ‘They've swiped the Hippocratic Oath: first
2. do no harm - and as a result their rhetoric and critiques are timorous and toothless.’
3. ‘But the thinking behind it is consistent with the rather timorous
4. hands-off approach to recent conflicts.’
5. ‘The best departments will encourage an entrepreneurship of information and ideas
6. which in turn requires daring
7. not conformity
8. and a cool-eyed rather than a timorous attitude to risk.’
9. ‘In terms of modern PC attitudes toward war and national solidarity
10. it's a big bucket of cold water down the pants of the timorous
11. and it reminds you how unapologetic popular patriotism used to be.’
12. ‘Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word
13. massive as oil tankers
14. others
15. small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer.’
16. ‘Man
17. these people are just too stupid to be trusted with appointments - and too timorous to deserve to a university position from which to dribble out the contents of their weak little minds.’
18. ‘The Welshman
19. who had stepped away from Livingston's timorous back line
20. seemed almost to be in the prone position when he wheeled to thrash a low volley inside the left-hand post.’
21. ‘But sadly it is all too typical of the dismissive attitude adopted by those at the Executive who seem to think that an airy-fairy
22. and probably timorous
23. arts lobby will go away if told that everything will be all right.’
24. ‘But the idea that a woman cannot be expected to cope with going into a witness box
25. where she will be publicly identified
26. is equally stereotypical: it implies a degraded notion of weak and timorous women.’
27. ‘If it had been
28. a particularly vicious correction must have occurred to turn Britain back into the timorous
29. conservative country it became in the Seventies.’
30. ‘Eileen wants a man with ‘a nice face
31. kind eyes and a gentle voice
32. ’ but can only break out of her meek and timorous shell in her fantasies.’
33. ‘I still cannot quite believe that this cowering timorous country of ours has produced such an extravagant masterpiece
34. and it has achieved something that not many modern buildings do - it has won the affection of those who use it.’
35. ‘So there are enormous consequences for all of us when the owners elect not to act like owners
36. but like timorous lackeys desperate to please management.’
37. ‘There is still a strong impression that the party's political approach remains timorous and lacks creativity when it comes to figuring out new responses to old problems.’
38. ‘Girls
39. allegedly timorous and lacking in confidence
40. now outnumber boys in student government
41. in honor societies
42. on school newspapers
43. and in debating clubs.’
44. ‘Neil Gatland as Malvolio displays an austere exterior well suited to his bitter antagonism with Sir Toby and yet is very funny to watch when at last it cracks into a hopeful
45. timorous smile.’
46. ‘And we have become a surprisingly timorous nation because we don't ask our leaders
47. our politicians serious questions.’
48. ‘Even a timorous proposal to convert taxis from diesel to less-polluting petrol five years ago failed to win legislative support.’
49. ‘And deep in their tiny
50. timorous hearts they know it.’
51. ‘At the moment
52. however
53. he is tackling arguably his most challenging subject
54. one which many lesser and more timorous artists would not dare contemplate for fear that it might ruin their fragile reputations.’