adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
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Maybe it is they who are being too timid in their ideas and proposals.
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I offer a plan: too timid , too reserved.
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Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest.
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They failed not because they were too timid but because they overreached.
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Even this may be too timid .
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When she found it she was too timid to go to the front door so she peeped in the window.
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I always said that Halliwell was too timid by half.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"May I come in?" said a timid little voice.
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a timid child
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Decker knew that the senior officer was wrong, but was too timid to tell him.
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I was always timid about taking action in a crisis, but not Doris.
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Ralph's wife was a small, timid woman who hardly ever spoke.
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The nation's newspapers are usually timid in criticizing the military.
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They think I'm just a timid woman, but I'll show them they're wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bruck is suitably cautious, but not at all timid .
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But soon nervous, timid seals tended to live longer than trusting ones, so gradually seals grew more and more wary.
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But then, Shyamalan is not an individual who could ever be described as timid .
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Ellie and I talked in the kitchen, whispering, both a bit timid .
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I should have been as timid as the girl herself, if she had looked at me!
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It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out.
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Many riders we hear about seem unjustifiably timid about taking themselves and their horses off across the countryside.
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On the phone, though, her client sounded timid , afraid, lost.