Examples of timorously

• Seeing some huts we timorously tapped on the door of one.

• 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.