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diffident
/ˈdɪfɪdənt/
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What does diffident mean?
adjective
- Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest
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adjective
- (archaic) Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdɪfɪdənt/
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Freckles broke into an unrestrained laugh, for the bird-lover was keen about his courting, while evidently his mate was diffident.
Up to this time, I had been a little diffident about the propriety of the advice I had given to her.
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After a time he began to sidle near to the youth, and in a diffident way try to make him a friend.
Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too diffident and shy.
As the experience of Arctic explorers tended to show that sea-water produced a form of dysentery, Wild was rather diffident about using it.