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• s  timid by nature or revealing timidity
  timorous little mouse
  in a timorous tone

• There is, to be sure, something timorous about this palpable reluctance to publicly criticize Jackson.
• With his blessing these gangs of squatters have flouted the courts and ignored the timorous police.
• The minute we meet them all (including Iranian actress Aghdashloo, who is great as the colonel's timorous, sweet-souled wife), we sense that we're in the presence of darkly .

• fearful
• trepid

News & Articles

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• Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian is due for a rediscovery
  The late singer, with composer Luciano Berio, changed the course of music. She's been neglected, but evidence of her legend is there to be found. "Berberian Sound Studio" — the creepily offbeat new British independent film in which Toby Jones plays a timorous sound-effects specialist working on a '70s Italian horror flick — takes its title and inspiration from the late American mezzo-soprano ...
  June 19, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Barry Gardiner in Times Online
  Instead, we have a leadership characterised by what the backbench Labour MP Barry Gardiner describes in this newspaper today as "vacillation, loss of international credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand".
• Brian Mulroney in Times Online
  Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian Prime Minister, said: "Ronald Reagan does not enter history tentatively. He does so with certainty and panache. At home and on the world stage, his were not the pallid etchings of a timorous politician. They were...
• Howard Zinn in Cranbury Press
  We who protest the war are not politicians,Dr. Zinn writes. "We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous...