He had seen heavy action in Indochina, which left him painfully diffident.

She was shy and diffident in manner, thin and tall in person.

Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since

Without his conscious volition he took a diffident, foot dragging, backward step.

The diffident girl had suddenly assumed the incisive strength of observant womanhood.

Still the Covenanters and the clergy were diffident of the king's sincerity.

Not understanding, she felt diffident and uncertain of herself in certain presences.

At least I have the greatest reason to be diffident of myself.

Aside from Mavis, Cordle had collected a small, diffident but interested crowd.

Mr. Lelyveld is also considered a somewhat diffident man, shy and guarded.

The oppressive fear of criticism was gone, but a diffident loneliness remained.

In his presence she felt diffident, mentally insecure, even as a child.

Emily was fair and pretty, girlish and diffident-blueeyes and light hair.

They had defended him with fierce indignation, against their more diffident companions.

He had grown a little diffident in stating why he had come.

Thomas, though diffident to a degree, was one of our greatest soldiers.