Sentence example with the word 'diffident'

diffident

bashful, demure, fearful, hesitating, mousy, retiring, self-depreciating, shaky, skittery, stickling, trembling, unassured

Definition adj. showing modest reserve

Last update: October 7, 2015


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Yesterday morning, the lock keeper was a diffident young man in his early twenties.   [adjective]

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This year we particularly want to encourage entries from for-profit service providers, who have seemed diffident about putting themselves forward.   [adjective]

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--Are you so diffident of an old friend that you will not allow him even the satisfaction of thinking that he is gratifying your wishes.   [adjective]

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The young gentleman, whom Lord Rattle had employed for this purpose, being diffident of his own interest with Mr.   [adjective]

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Princess Mary seemed even quieter and more diffident than usual.   [adjective]

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Gouvernail was in no sense a diffident man, for he was not a self-conscious one.   [adjective]

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He was at first diffident and embarrassed in speaking, but gradually overcame these difficulties, and was heard with much attention and deference, especially when he addressed the House on economic questions.   [Please select]

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Not a little interested, Diane raised frankly sympathetic eyes to his in diffident question.   [Please select]

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But the man was diffident to a degree--At length, somewhat unconsciously, "I think not," she answered.   [Please select]

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Her meek and diffident expression of countenance had quite disappeared.   [Please select]

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"I am diffident of my powers in the line of composition," said Ferguson.   [Please select]

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