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Meanings of diffident smile in English

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Usage of diffident smile in English
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The Fly-kinden looked up with a diffident smile as Thalric approached to thank him.
Empire in black and gold
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There was a quaint diffident smile on his lips.
A Fool and His Money
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And that diffident smile, so absurdly out of place on the face of an employer, appeared again.
The House of Toys
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He was small, corpulent, and was sitting with clasped woolly gloves, goloshed feet, and a diffident smile.
The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro a...
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A diffident smile crossed Larsson's face.
The accident man
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Aethelfrith offered a diffident smile.
Hood
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She started and turned toward him with a quick, diffident smile, her dark eyes filling with an unspoken apology.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
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Then he glanced up with a diffident smile: "I've often been wanting to come and see you."
Clayhanger
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He feigned a diffident smile as if he should not be asking for such a favor but would do it nonetheless.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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'Have you heard?' he asks, walking over to me with his diffident smile.
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
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"I thought you would." His face softened into a diffident smile.
A fierce radiance: a novel
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"You should have heard what he said," said Ambrose with his venturesome, diffident smile.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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"I wouldn't want to be any trouble." Diffident smile.
206 Bones
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