Sample Sentences for
diffident
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    Here I am, a shy, diffident sort of man.  (source)
    diffident = hesitant and unassertive
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    Speak out, my boy—don't be diffident.  (source)
    diffident = hesitant and unassertive due to a lack of self-confidence
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    Somehow we landed on the subject of Pim's extreme diffidence.  (source)
    diffidence = unassertiveness
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    So Cedric, sensing this diffident fascination, smiles at all comers but offers few openings.  (source)
    diffident = hesitant and unassuming
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    His diffidence had prevented his depending on his own judgment in so anxious a case, but his reliance on mine made every thing easy.  (source)
    diffidence = unassertiveness due to a lack of self-confidence
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    He began a little diffidently, avoiding her gaze, but he gathered courage as he went along.  (source)
    diffidently = with hesitancy and unassertiveness
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    I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.†  (source)
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    And since he was too diffident to confront homosexuality, and since little boys were insulting, scary, and stubborn, he further limited his interests to little girls.  (source)
    diffident = hesitant and unassertive
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    He talked quietly and easily, with a diffidence which Leamas had never seen in him before.  (source)
    diffidence = hesitancy and unassertiveness -- apparently due to a lack of self-confidence
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    Ralph was coming along, holding his spear over his shoulder. Diffidently, Simon allowed his pace to slacken until he was walking side by side with Ralph and looking up at him through the coarse black hair that now fell to his eyes.  (source)
    Diffidently = in an unassertive or submissive manner
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    voice sounded diffident  (source)
    diffident = lacking self-confidence
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    Blanquet spoke of this afterwards with much diffidence...  (source)
    diffidence = lack of self-confidence
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    He looked so stern that I grew alarmed. "Do not concern yourself," I said diffidently.  (source)
    diffidently = with hesitancy and unassertiveness
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