The phrase "afraid to please" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is hesitant or unwilling to make others happy or satisfy their expectations due to fear or anxiety.
Example: "She was often afraid to please her friends, worrying that her efforts would not be appreciated."
Alternatives: "reluctant to satisfy" or "hesitant to please".
Many who are afraid of success are anxious to please others.
From the outside, Dara appears confident and tough but internally, her struggles are not unlike many of us: "Really, I have two opposing sides to myself -- the fierce competitor who thinks she can swim faster than anybody else, and the vulnerable woman desperate to please others and afraid to fail".
Yet the script, credited to four writers and based on a concept attributed to those four and two others, can come off as sanitized and committee-created, with stories that are so eager to please that they are afraid to alienate.
The company also discovered that 80percentt of the girls it surveyed feel the pressure to please others makes them afraid of ever making a mistake.
The most common criticism is that subjects tend to overestimate their degree of adherence, either to please the interviewer or because they are afraid of his or her disapproval [ 34].
I told him please to send somebody, to please have somebody escort me home, that I was afraid, that I knew something terrible was going to happen to me, and he said that I should not worry".
I'm afraid I learned my feminist lessons a bit too well; I do not live to please.
"We ask you to please be responsible, look out for each other and don't be afraid to ask for help if needed," it stated.
She tried to please him". She had a toolkit, knew how to use it and wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty.
The poet Shane Koyczan pointed out that his was a country not afraid to use the words "please and thank you".
