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She is diffident around adults, but dominant with her peer group.diffident = hesitant and unassertive
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She is so diffident; I can't imagine her as president of the organization.
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Somehow we landed on the subject of Pim's extreme diffidence. (source)diffidence = unassertiveness
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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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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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There were diffident raps at the factory window. (source)diffident = hesitant and unassertive due to a lack of self-confidence
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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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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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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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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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His parents are diffident around Maxine, at first keeping their distance, not boisterous as they typically are around their Bengali friends. (source)diffident = hesitant and unassertive
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They had something in common - a kind of diffidence. (source)diffidence = hesitancy and unassertiveness
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He coughs diffidently. (source)diffidently = unassertively (as if wishing not to bother anyone)
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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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Blanquet spoke of this afterwards with much diffidence... (source)diffidence = lack of self-confidence
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Gitano laid his hat on the floor and diffidently sat down. He wouldn't reach for food. Carl had to pass it to him. (source)diffidently = with hesitancy and unassertiveness
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