timid

For all the hype and confusion surrounding the 97th Academy Awards, the actual ceremony was ultimately rather timid.

In “The Choirboys,” a timid lieutenant fails at his assigned secret mission: sneaking into the department’s personnel files to change his ambitious boss’s IQ score from 107 to 141.

She invented a fantasy alter ego as a child — Rubina Flake — to overcome her timid nature.

Quan's natural effervescence, however, gave his characters an energy and spirit that defied the expectation that these geeks had to be timid or socially awkward.

However, barring occasional, mercurial exceptions, England remain painfully timid in pressure moments.