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Definition of Timider
1. timid [adj] - See also: timid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timider
Literary usage of Timider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hard Times: A Novel by Charles Dickens (1854)
"Sometimes they ' played tricks upon him ; but they never knew how he felt them,
and shrunk up, when he was alone with me. He was far, far timider than they ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"Melissa stood waiting for us, demure but subdued, with a still timider look than
ever upon that sweet shrinking small face of hers. Her heart beat hard, ..."
3. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Alfred Bishop Mason, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1881)
"Due consideration of the particular facts we have cited above left no doubt that
the south could not count on find- ing the opposition timider and less ..."
4. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1904)
"... of Kirke White" and put to their lips "the pure Greek wine of Keats," he not
only expressed a daring conviction to which many timider spirits responded, ..."
5. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Alfred Bishop Mason, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1881)
"Due consideration of the particular facts we have cited above left no doubt that
the south could not count on finding the opposition timider and less ..."
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