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Значения термина more diffident на английском

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They had defended him with fierce indignation, against their more diffident companions.
The Saint
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Mr. Hawthorne was more chatty than I had expected, but not any more diffident.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
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He was evidently more friendly than fierce, but he was more diffident than friendly.
Pandora
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Princess Mary seemed even quieter and more diffident than usual.
War and Peace
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Gilian stood in front of this spate of talk, becoming more diffident and fearful every moment.
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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Never had she been more diffident and self-distrustful.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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My own class of candidates were much more diffident, as well as appeared to answer worse.
Youth
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If the tyrannous day of our fathers had but possessed the means of these our more diffident times!
Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays
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She suffered neither from weakness nor want of decision; but her manner was more diffident, and she said less.
The Heavenly Twins
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Then as the vehicle picked up speed her expressions became more diffident and she stumbled to the back of the bus.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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He opened the front door, and a middle-aged man entered, accompanying and partly shoving forward a more diffident and younger one.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
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She gave her rare caresses shyly, with averted eyes, and she was always more diffident with her mother than with her father.
A Poor Wise Man
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The literature of Avebury, not quite so copious as that of the stones of the Plain, is also more diffident in its guessing.
Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
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This seems to show either that adults are more observant or that children are more diffident in following out an impulse of this kind.
A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
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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.
Reuters
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"I thought you said you personally preferred more diffident creatures," and Lord Fordyce smiled whimsically.
The Man and the Moment
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