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- r in a timorous and trepid manner
- Genuinely baffled, heckled by the Press and scared for their own skins, the airmen timorously offered suggestions, timorously took sides on the two real issues which arose .
- The cut was $30 million more than had been ordered by Congress, which had timorously refused to make its own economies.
- As long as dinosaurs roamed the earth, our distant ancestors never got to be much more than cringing, shrewlike creatures that slinked out at night to nibble timorously on plants .