Meanings of rather diffident in English

His only blunder was the rather diffident recommendation that Barbara Drew be asked again.

On the contrary, he is rather diffident and unassuming.

The repression made them rather diffident, to be sure.

He was studious and rather diffident, and had few out-of-door pursuits except golf and gardening.

Benjamin Bates was rather diffident, and had been holding back, but at Bob's invitation came forward.

The truth was that he was rather diffident with women, largely owing to lack of experience with them.

At first people are a little disgusted at the apparent dirtiness of the employment, and also perhaps rather diffident.

Investigators are generally quiet, unimpressive men, rather diffident, and wholly wanting in the art of interesting the public in their work.

It seemed certain that he was humourous, and kind, sympathetic, rather diffident, speculative, moderately intelligent, with the rudiments perhaps of an imagination.

As the experience of Arctic explorers tended to show that sea-water produced a form of dysentery, Wild was rather diffident about using it.

He might be modest and rather diffident in manner, owing to racial shyness, but he had a fine sustaining substructure of sheer masculine arrogance.

Although she comes to the opinions one might expect from a clever woman in the 1950s, she does so in a cool, rather diffident style.

Rather diffident, he obeyed her.

"I have been wondering," Grange said in his shy, rather diffident way, "if you would care to do any riding while I am here."