Significados de very diffident em inglês

For I was very diffident as to the outcome of such a step.

He was an excellent fellow, seventeen years old, and very diffident.

The daughters were remarkably pretty, but very diffident.

Boys are very diffident about these matters, and require to be encouraged and comforted about them.

I was at first very diffident of this report, but have found that he was right.

But there was something very diffident again.

Matogee (Yellow Bear) was a natural humorous speaker, and a very diffident man at other times.

Desire felt very diffident, they were such exclusive rooms, so old and settled and sure of themselves-andshe was so new.

She was shy, very diffident, very young; but in the few things she said, he discerned-orfancied-thestirrings of a real taste-real intelligence.

I have been very diffident in proponing any plan for their assistance, knowing that some former proposals have failed of accomplishing the end.

He was embarrassed and awkward, as is usually the case with those who have seldom faced an audience, and who are naturally very diffident.

He was very diffident; though longing to see Erica, he would yet have given anything to be able to transfer his work to his father.

"Oh, you are very diffident, aren't you, sitting there so bashfully!"