What is "intimidated"

Usage examples of "intimidated".

Now that she was older, Claire often found this silent communication between her mother and sister amusing, though when she was a child it had intimidated her, making her fed left out.

The woman facing him didn’t lack self-confidence, and she wasn’t the least bit intimidated by him even though he was almost a foot taller.

Several teenage boyfriends had been, in various degrees, insulted, angered, or intimidated, which had promptly ended her fledgling relationships with them.

She was pleased that Christine wasn't intimidated by Robert, as so many people were.

It would be easy to let herself be intimidated by him, especially when she thought of lying beneath him on that big bed.

Rather than being intimidated by the years of hard work that lay before him, Webb felt a fierce joy at the prospect.

Far from being intimidated, he had called all his dogs and sicced them on Dexter.

Nor was she intimidated by him, and though a certain amount of intimidation was necessary in his chosen field, sometimes it was wearying.

Evidently deciding Temple wasn't a man who could be charmed, impressed, or intimidated, he indicated the chairs.

He lived in a mansion, she thought, and he was intimidated because she had traveled some and been exposed to a lot of formal dinners.

If Swain had ever been intimidated in his life, she would be surprised.

But farmers are conservative and those younger sons, willing to go, those without patrons in Council, are being intimidated or beaten up unless they belong to a certain guild.

She wouldn't be intimidated by their hooves or their cries of defiance.

There was something else on which she very much wanted Caleb's advice, and now—with the Thrixtopple family intimidated into staying in their cabins, and Caleb in as good a mood as she'd ever seen him after his demonstration of Satyajohi's Conjecture—now was the best time she could have to bring it up.

Boris said repressively, but Cass was not intimidated and grinned back.