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Example sentences for: timid

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Secretary of Defense William Cohen may be thoughtful and bright, argues the cover story, but he's timid about using America's military might (in Bosnia, especially) and unwilling to make hard decisions about Pentagon budget cuts.
Raised on the cool medium of television, undergrads are skeptical about passionate ideas, doubtful of genius, and intellectually timid.
But this formulation would suggest that U.S. intervention in Somalia was not too aggressive but too timid.Maybe what humanitarian intervention requires is a stronger element of, shall we say, behavior modification--"tough love" sent abroad.
The quail is so called not because it is timid but because the call of the female is a double note queep, queep .