0 in a way that is nervous and without confidence:
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?''
It did not break in, or almost never, and very timorously at that.
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.