diffident in English
a diffident youth
Use "diffident" in a sentence
1. He seemed diffident, even shy.
2. Helen was diffident and reserved.
3. He has a politely diffident manner.
4. Don't be so diffident about your talents.
5. His fault is that he's too diffident.
6. He was diffident about his own success.
7. Besides, Bob felt diffident about challenging an older man.
8. 15 Diffident, stupid with fatigue, she stood blinking.
9. The Neanderthals seemed unexpectedly gentle and diffident people.
10. Bashful definition, uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid
11. Joe was humble and diffident about his own success.
12. He was modest and diffident about his own success.
13. The voice at the other end was light, gentle, diffident.
14. He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.
15. He was winsome and diffident, with a quiet sense of humour.
16. The discipline that journalists have been most diffident about is economics.
17. Some common synonyms of Coy are bashful, diffident, modest, and shy
18. He was clearly of a dynamic nature, not diffident or hesitant.
19. Her former classmates say she was shy and diffident in school.
20. You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well!
21. His man didn't seem unfriendly more like diffident, nervous, intellectually adrift from his surroundings.
22. Beggarer hub-banding koans econometer overgorged meat-packing DCVO out-thrust unaccumulatively diffident
23. She was diffident, which gave him confidence and fed his sense of superiority.
24. In cool weather, serpents do not tempt; they grow diffident, recede and hibernate.
25. Dexter glanced at Blanche but she was as inscrutable as usual, diffident but assured.
26. Mr Coleman is as diffident as his television namesake, at the microphone, is garrulous.
27. Shaun became noticeably diffident when the conversation turned to the subject of his promotion.
28. 6 Dexter glanced at Blanche but she was as inscrutable as usual, diffident but assured.
29. Antonyms for Beseeching include diffident, beneficent, casual, apathetic, feeble, lackadaisical, moderate, perfunctory, weak and dispassionate
30. Dick was always diffident when to staff matters and not been ableto summonthe gumption tothe table.
31. Would not say boo to a goose is extremely timid or diffident vb, boos, Booing …
32. 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest: Shy, iridescent, coltish, pelvically Anfractuous, amply busted, given to diffident movements.
33. Antonyms for Braggadocious include humble, meek, modest, deferential, demure, diffident, self-effacing, unpretentious, shy and retiring
34. Antonyms for Blustering include quiet, modest, humble, diffident, self-effacing, timid, unpretentious, hesitant, unassuming and reserved
35. Despite a shy and diffident manner, Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.
36. This boy, still midget but already diffident with a kind of rangy ease, is the best of the six.
37. He was good at drawing and did a really charming, diffident design for his own Christmas cards each year.
38. I was thrilled at the prospect ahead of me but diffident and embarrassed at joining a community so totally unfamiliar.
39. Their different personalities are reflected in their deportment on court, Davenport's walk far more diffident than Williams's confident strut.
40. 21 From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.
41. How does the adjective Bashful contrast with its synonyms? Some common synonyms of Bashful are coy, diffident, modest, and shy
42. But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.
43. 15 But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.
44. On Feb. 19 a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret.
45. If students do not wear the same uniforms, students wearing cheap clothes may have the feeling of self-contempt and be diffident about expressing one's opinions in class.
46. 26 Allison: So tell me Joe... How come a man as attractive, intelligent, well-spoken... diffident in the most seductive way, and yet... powerful... is all alone in this world?
47. Your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself conspicuous by some solecism or blunder.