Sentence example with the word 'diffidence'

diffidence

afraidness, compunction, dubiety, hesitancy, misdoubt, protest, scrupulosity, shadow of doubt, skepticism, tentativeness

Definition n. lack of self-confidence

Last update: September 27, 2015


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I presently asked, with increasing diffidence.   [Please select]

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I say so with diffidence, since the captain has a longer experience than I.   [Please select]

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I asked, with awkward diffidence.   [Please select]

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What affectation of diffidence was this at first.   [Please select]

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Riley, John, i, 307; his Diffidence and Merits, i, 308.   [Please select]

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Depretis tardily recognized the need for such agreement, if only to remove the coldness and invincible diffidence which, Afflan.   [Please select]

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Davis had none of Lincoln's diffidence about his own capacity for directing the strategy of armies.   [Please select]

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