0 nervous and without much confidence
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.