"timorous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means showing or feeling fear or apprehension about something. Example: The timorous mouse scurried away from the sound of the footsteps coming down the hallway.
The most obvious is that, as a result of its functioning democracy, zealous bureaucracy and timorous or lethargic governments, Britain has a slapdash approach to heritage.
Instead, he stressed that most migrants to America have been eager seekers after a second chance, "not the laggards, not the timorous, not the failures".
Like many diaries that are written to order or published too quickly, it manages to sound both timorous and contrived.
India has had a few of these in the 1990s, and some say that prime ministers who know their tenures will be short try to get more done than the timorous and long-serving.The case for gloomYet sceptics see a more alarming possibility: that India's politicians are not really interested in reform.
He believes in building a missile-defence shield, in preventing China from becoming a regional hegemon, in using human rights as a weapon in foreign policy; in short, he is every timorous European's worst nightmare.
As for the few score Italian and Spanish peacekeepers in Herat, they are among the most timorous members of a too-feeble NATO force though the recent deployment of Canadian and British troops to southern Afghanistan promises improvement there.
A class of politicians seems to have been up to no good for a long period of time, and to have assumed that the timorous French justice system would never act.
They claim that their co-religionists welcome them warmly, while more timorous European and Asian competitors stay away.But it is in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, that Turkey's domestic political woes will find most resonance.
He certainly cannot risk giving timorous Europeans and Arabs any sort of veto.
With Hamas snapping at his heels, it would take immense courage for the timorous Mr Abbas to modify the Palestinians' mantra: a state on the 1967 borders, a capital in Jerusalem and the "right" of the refugees of 60 years ago to return to what is now Israel.
ONLY a couple of months ago, Robert Hue, France's Communist leader, was denouncing the "hesitations" of "an austere, bland and timorous" Socialist Party.
