Significados de certain diffidence en inglés

When he had arranged it and gone out, Nigel said, with a certain diffidence:

Whereat Noel's hand came out gropingly, with a certain diffidence.

He looked at Jean with a certain diffidence.

His dark eye never wavered from her face, but there was a certain diffidence in his voice.

His lack of early education gave him a certain diffidence and a distrust of his own gifts of expression.

It was with a certain diffidence that I'd proposed it as a class project-orgame, really: a catalog of everyday life in Yugoslavia.

In his relations with Smoke he was always absurdly gentle; also he was fatherly; and at the same time betrayed a certain diffidence or shyness.

She smiled at me, but there was something about her smile, a kind of reserve, a certain diffidence I had never encountered with her before.

"I happen to have a pretty tidy balance just now," she remarked parenthetically, and as though with a certain diffidence.