Words similar to timid

Example sentences for: timid

How can you use “timid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Your portrait of Japan is funny, but if they were really as timid and mingy as you suggest, they wouldn't be so healthy and long-lived.
Bradley has played along, calling Gore "timid" and associating him with "entrenched power."
That's the moneymaking way to appeal to the timid, the plump, and the contented-i.e.
So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
Raised on the cool medium of television, undergrads are skeptical about passionate ideas, doubtful of genius, and intellectually timid.