Timorous Synonyms

The organization of the empire is planned throughout on broad, free lines; there is nothing mean and timorous in it.

The vast majority are most likely too timorous or too intimidated to do anything about it.

Bleating noises from bureaucrats in Brussels who see their expense accounts under threat only tend to frighten children of a very timorous disposition.

They brought themselves into notoriety by excommunicating the philosopher - an act of weak self-defence on the part of men who had themselves but recently been admitted to the country, and were timorous of the suspicion that they shared Spinoza's then execrated views.

Sarah took a timorous step forward and spilled the details of their plight in one long ramble, barely stopping for breath.