Trepid

Executives in financial services and technology are the most cutthroat in collecting intelligence about competitors, while pharmaceutical executives and government officials are the most trepid, according to a recent survey. ❋ Joe Light (2011)

Everywhere he goes, the trepid hero of Dice Rules is abused. ❋ Nathan Rabin (2010)

Look at the poor little trepid creature, panting and helpless under the great eyes! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our delirium is the somber side-effect of a nation under sedation, induced by a heroin-like injected haze of obfuscation and trepid tentativeness to break free of our "pusher." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kord kvartalis kell 15. 45-16.15 on Kultuurkapitali trepid rahvast täis. ❋ Tatsutahime (2005)

Caitlin and Sheelagh entered the bathroom with trepid alertness and peered where Zee was pointing. ❋ Attanasio, A. A. (1984)

He mastered his trepid nature as best he could, and stayed there. ❋ Christopher Leadem (N/A)

A little later, seeing the in - trepid warrior of eighty-four on her feet with the other delegates, the Empress sent one of her aides across the room with this message: ❋ Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (1929)

The muscles of the spiritual athlete pant for such exertion; and without it, they would dwindle into trepid imbecility. ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)

Your horsemanship, sir, and the trepid pertinacity with which you fasten upon the reluctant society of men of rank, have given you a notorious celebrity, of which your worthy father, honest ❋ William Carleton (1831)

But now as the President, after an initial trepid response to Wisconsin and elsewhere, he has decided that organized labor is no longer "critical to his political ground game" Wall Street Journal, 2-24-11. ❋ Jr. Leo Hindery (2011)

The erection of the scaffolding, and subsequent proceedings of the workmen, at so fearful a height from the "haunts of men," excited a very general interest, more particularly so on the recent happy accomplishment of the undertaking, when the in-trepid aeronauts cheered the admiring multitude far beneath, and, seated in the clouds like the deities of Mount Olympus, drank to the prosperity of their friends in the nether regions. ❋ John Badcock (1823)

The trainage is where the watter is not so trepid. ❋ Pierre Esprit Radisson (1673)

However, outlook remains trepid as "the upturn remains fragile and there is still considerable insecurity with regard to future developments." ❋ Gary Chalik (2010)

On a mid-March afternoon in 2004, Jeff Zucker found himself facing a meeting with real trepidation-and he was not by nature a trepid man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unfortunately, that's also exactly what happened to your trepid fashion reporter one lousy week before Fashion Week: I broke my foot (which brings up shades of a bad Bette Davis movie).