Voorbeelden van timorous

• Now, the female secretary is a timorous creature well past the fifties and not likely to challenge the figures of tons, cwts.

• Every new invention arouses these fears among the timorous.

• It is very difficult for anyone to talk about it, because the leaders of the different parties are so timorous on the subject.

• We should not pursue a timorous safety-first policy, but should accept the difficulties of risks when we come up against them.

• Again, that was rather too timorous an outlook on their part.

• What more impressive knight could a timorous maiden wish for?

• Some of my constituents are somewhat timorous creatures, and they might be put off by that rather admonitory wording.

• Of course, that is only a bogy to frighten the timorous.