Significados de too diffident en inglés

The greatest sufferers were often too diffident to ask for help.

But you are too diffident, and you don't realise your power of sympathy.

Edward (replied she) you are surely too diffident in your own praise.

But the Earl was too proud and perhaps too diffident to make the attempt.

Laura was too dumbfounded, and too diffident, to ask the grounds of such a choice.

No; I am too diffident to ask for a place I have not won by service.

England found him a little too diffident.

His fault is that he's too diffident.

He had been afraid to ask after Mary; and the doctor had been too diffident of himself to speak of her.

As for Hemstead, he was fat too diffident to attempt any such strategy, much as he would have liked to solemnize the venerable rite.

"George," she said presently, "I sometimes think you're a little too diffident.

"'E's a hunchback," said Bill- Ihadbeen too diffident to describe him so.

"You are too despondent,-perchancetoo diffident, concerning your own ability."

"I have come to study with him, ma'am"' was my interior reply, but I was too diffident to say it aloud.

'You are too diffident, perhaps, of your powers,' said she; and there was a faint curl of the lip that made the words sound equivocally.