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Significados de diffidence en inglés

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Lack of self-confidence.

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Uso de diffidence en inglés
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There was some diffidence in Leila's expression, but not a great deal.
The darkest road
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She found it impossible to look her own diffidence in the face.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
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Rosa and I shook hands in silence, and with a little diffidence.
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
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I was given a chair, but we were all overcome with diffidence.
Between the Woods and the Water
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But in his presence a wall of diffidence and timidity encompassed her.
The Ragged Edge
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It is offered without diffidence, because it is offered in perfect modesty.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
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I dropped into my natural self, a thing of shyness and diffidence.
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
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Hester suggested, with diffidence, that they would look pretty in the drawing-room.
Red Pottage
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His language was moderate; he bore himself reservedly, at moments with diffidence.
Denzil Quarrier
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He walked slowly and with sad diffidence by the deserted stockade fence.
Openings in the Old Trail
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He declined the honor, however, on account of diffidence and failing health.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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It was terrible to feel so humble, so full of trembling diffidence.
December Love
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There was a strange expression in his grey eyes, not unlike diffidence.
From the Housetops
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Months since, with much doubt and diffidence, I began this simple story.
Driven Back to Eden
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With much diffidence he replied: 'I speak only of my own feeling.
Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
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So were his manner and bearing, whereof all the diffidence had gone.
A Yellow God: An Idol of Africa
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Diffidence a través del tiempo
Diffidence por variante geográfica
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