All 7 Uses of
diffident
in
The Fountainhead
- But he spoke, his head high, as an equal among equals, just subtly diffident, so that no great name present could take offense.†
Chpt 1.2
- "Yes," said Keating, a faint coating of diffidence over the tone he had used in discussions with his classmates, "but windows are less important than the dignity of a building's facade."†
Chpt 1.3
- The sketch lay on the Chinese artist's table, and the artist stepped aside diffidently, in silence.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- "You the fellow who built the Booby Hatch?" he asked, quite diffidently.†
Chpt 1.13
- "It's not just a house, Mr. Roark," he said with timid diffidence, as if he were speaking to a man older and more prominent than himself, "it's likeā¦like a symbol to me.†
Chpt 1.13
- Heyer could not understand it; he always remembered Keating as the diffident boy who had talked to him so nicely about old porcelain.†
Chpt 1.14
- Their diffident presence completed the picture of a feudal mansion.†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
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(diffident) hesitant and unassertive -- often due to a lack of self-confidence