1
They had defended him with fierce indignation, against their more diffident companions.
2
Mr. Hawthorne was more chatty than I had expected, but not any more diffident.
3
He was evidently more friendly than fierce, but he was more diffident than friendly.
4
Princess Mary seemed even quieter and more diffident than usual.
5
Gilian stood in front of this spate of talk, becoming more diffident and fearful every moment.
6
Never had she been more diffident and self-distrustful.
7
My own class of candidates were much more diffident, as well as appeared to answer worse.
8
If the tyrannous day of our fathers had but possessed the means of these our more diffident times!
9
She suffered neither from weakness nor want of decision; but her manner was more diffident, and she said less.
10
Then as the vehicle picked up speed her expressions became more diffident and she stumbled to the back of the bus.
11
He opened the front door, and a middle-aged man entered, accompanying and partly shoving forward a more diffident and younger one.
12
She gave her rare caresses shyly, with averted eyes, and she was always more diffident with her mother than with her father.
13
The literature of Avebury, not quite so copious as that of the stones of the Plain, is also more diffident in its guessing.
14
This seems to show either that adults are more observant or that children are more diffident in following out an impulse of this kind.
15
The crew is headed by the bold astronaut Buzz Lightyear, voiced by Tim Allen, and the more diffident Woody the cowboy, voiced by Tom Hanks.
16
"I thought you said you personally preferred more diffident creatures," and Lord Fordyce smiled whimsically.
