Definition of "timidly" []

• In a timid manner. (adverb)

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• "Peter without saying a word timidly drew near to the fire and warmed his hands in the smoke."
• ""Captain Miller," she called timidly, and at sound of his name, Miller turned toward her."
• "No sooner had the human family begun to recover its balance, to emerge timidly from the ruins, than new wars came to plunge it back into the morass."