Exempel på 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.

• A snooper in one home might be caught because he did cause fear, while another might not in the home of a less timorous person.

• They have quite rightly stilled the fears of even the most timorous.

• Any weakening of resolve, as is suggested by some of our more timorous brethren, would be disastrous.

• Are we barristers so timorous that we are unable to compete with any competition that might arise?

• Unfortunately, some of our managers are somewhat timorous and fearful of giving too strong a lead in case they upset head office or the union.

• I think that partly the trouble has been due to the timorous and very half-hearted manner in which the problem has been tackled.

• I am somewhat timorous in entering into a discussion on the appointment of magistrates.