(n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
(a.) Subject to sudden alarm.
(a.) Causing fright; alarming.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) For a few fevered weeks it was "who is the least scary?"
(3) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
(4) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(5) Think the build-up to Brexit was polarising and scary?
(6) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
(7) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
(8) Asked about such mis-steps, Frieden said: “Ebola is scary.
(9) The trail north from the scary little airstrip at Lukla is chocker with trekkers – at times it's more like a queue than a walk.
(10) Onward to dystopia then: Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The front page attacks on the 3 judges for basically just doing their job is scary.
(11) Honestly, it's not scary for me to die for freedom."
(12) I've never done it before; it's exciting and a little bit scary ... Adam Lloyd 05 November 2013 5:49pm Hi David, Big fan of your work!
(13) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
(14) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
(15) There is a real risk of hunger growing in our city and across the nation and of people going without and that's a scary, scary thing.” Grimaldi says he doesn’t plan to introduce rationing yet.
(16) They told us that they think feminism is angry and scary and difficult and "not for them", and that feminists aren't feminine or sexy and that they hate men.
(17) But I was wrong to peg Let’s Be Cops down in the mire with the Scary Movie franchise.
(18) Cancer is scary, but it should not be forgotten that treatment options and outcomes have never been better and continue to improve.
(19) It is our job to help them through a distressing and scary time.
(20) As one scientist told me, and as a YouTube video of a Samsung S5 exploding after being hit with a hammer confirms: “Lithium-ion batteries are quite scary.” This is partly why they have improved by only a factor of two or three in 25 years.
Timid
Definition:
(a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But my timid scrunch-face puts me so behind the curve that I might as well start training carrier pigeons.
(2) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
(3) Confirming that he would apply to be the next commissioner of the Met, he said: "I do not believe that the men and the women of the Met were timid, which is an accusation that has been levelled at us."
(4) When the police visited Rodger, whom Brown said deputies found “rather shy, timid and polite, well-spoken”, he played down any mental problems, telling police he was having difficulties with his social life and was planning to drop out of Santa Barbara City College.
(5) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(6) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
(7) Free-born animals are very timid and show typical flight reactions.
(8) On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we’re sunk without it.
(9) It is suspicious of the SNP's rather timid version of independence, always being described as being about "the full powers of the parliament" – which is hardly a language or outlook for transformational change.
(10) This is an international problem demanding an international response, which so far has been desperately timid.
(11) Like Cameron, who is disappointing Eurosceptics with the timidity of his reform programme, the Swiss have been forced to accede to the realities of negotiating with a much bigger player.
(12) Endogenous depressives were found to have more pronounced changes on measures of dependence and timidity, but when change in mood state was partialed out only one of the dependence measures and timidity remained significant.
(13) This kind of contacts led to a social activation especially by schizophreniacs who had a lack of drive and seemed to be regressive, also caused an increase of drive and self-reliance by formerly timid, reserved girls.
(14) Romney also took several digs at Clinton’s foreign policy record, characterizing her time with the Obama administration as “timid”.
(15) Australia have a patchy squad, but its best elements are valuable and there had been no prospect that they would lose timidly.
(16) In opposition, we were too timid about making these bigger arguments.” He has calculated that government spending on housing benefit will be £120bn over the next five years, almost £50bn of which goes to private landlords.
(17) After only a few weeks in Chile, Pinochet is finding the charms of his native land - the compliant judges, the supportive generals, the timid politicians - are not what they used to be.
(18) The sanctions imposed by western states against Russia represent a timid hope that economic hardship will make Russians resent the regime and nudge them towards active protests.
(19) It is the bold agenda against the timid one; the visionaries against those who believe Labour can limp home with a few safe offerings that can fit safely on the back of a pledge card.
(20) The Liberal Democrats are undecided (Nick Clegg calls it "timid"), the crossbenchers unlikely to co-operate.