Crossword-Solution: TIMOROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Timorous | a. | Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. |
| Timorous | a. | Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “TIMOROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shy; retiring | 1 answer |
| Like a Burnsian mouse | 2 answers |
| Full of fear | 2 answers |
| Weak-kneed. | 3 answers |
| unheroic | 4 answers |
| Trepid | 4 answers |
| Easily frightened | 5 answers |
| Faint-hearted | 6 answers |
| Quaking | 37 answers |
| Afraid | 45 answers |
| Cowardly ___ | 45 answers |
| tremulous | 51 answers |
| Quivering | 58 answers |
| Timid | 62 answers |
| unobtrusive | 62 answers |
| Trembling | 66 answers |
| Nervous | 67 answers |
| chary | 68 answers |
| Shy | 72 answers |
| Fearful | 72 answers |
| reticent | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with TIMOROUS (5)
But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.
The wisest, unexperienced, will be ever 240 Timorous, and loth, with novice modesty (As he who, seeking asses, found a kingdom) Irresolute, unhardy, unadventrous.
Only it doesn't seem to grow so fast as I expected." "Why, I'm amazed at the progress your carpenter has made every time I come." The girl looked down, and then lifting her eyes she said, with a sort of timorous appeal-- "I've been reading that book since you were down at Nantasket." "Book?" repeated Corey, while she reddened with disappointment.
But Ralph fell to speech with the chapmen and men-at-arms; and both of these were very courteous with him; for they rejoiced in his company, and especially the chapmen, who were somewhat timorous of the perils of the road.
The poor lady’s small, neat, timorous face had certainly no great character, but Roderick had reproduced its sweetness, its mildness, its minuteness, its still maternal passion, with the most unerring art.
Quotes with TIMOROUS (3)
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop.
I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in …