1) He was diffident about his own success.

2) Helen was diffident and reserved.

3) He was modest and diffident about his own success.

4) Don't be so diffident about your talents.

5) He has a politely diffident manner.

6) He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.

7) You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well!

8) Diffident, stupid with fatigue,[http:///diffident.html] she stood blinking.

9) The Neanderthals seemed unexpectedly gentle and diffident people.

10) He seemed diffident, even shy.

11) Joe was humble and diffident about his own success.

12) Besides, Bob felt diffident about challenging an older man.

13) Despite a shy and diffident manner,() Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.

14) Shaun became noticeably diffident when the conversation turned to the subject of his promotion.

15) She was diffident, which gave him confidence and fed his sense of superiority.

16) The discipline that journalists have been most diffident about is economics.

17) He was winsome and diffident, with a quiet sense of humour.

18) Rainbow feels caught out, blushes, nods a diffident assent, but says nothing.

19) From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.

20) Mr Coleman is as diffident as his television namesake, at the microphone, is garrulous.

21) Her former classmates say she was shy and diffident in school.

22) Nifty reputation Low-key, approachable and diffident, Matheny was the daddy during the golden days of Southwestern College art.

23) His man didn't seem unfriendly more like diffident, nervous, intellectually adrift from his surroundings.

24) His fault is that he's too diffident.

25) But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.

26) Dexter glanced at Blanche but she was as inscrutable as usual, diffident but assured.

27) I was thrilled at the prospect ahead of me but diffident and embarrassed at joining a community so totally unfamiliar.

28) He was good at drawing and did a really charming, diffident design for his own Christmas cards each year.

29) Their different personalities are reflected in their deportment on court, Davenport's walk far more diffident than Williams's confident strut.

30) The voice at the other end was light, gentle, diffident.

1) Helen was diffident and reserved.

2) He has a politely diffident manner.

31) She is diffident about expressing her opinions.

32) I was diffident about [ of ] saying so.

33) He was to diffident to do justice to himself.

34) He was too diffident to do justice to himself.

35) He was diffident and silent.

36) He was too diffident to express his opinion.

37) He is diffident of his success.

38) While they speak softly, they are far from diffident.

39) 'speak out, my boy -- don't be diffident.

40) The next day he received two more complaints[ ], one from a man who came in diffident deprecation.

41) In cool weather, serpents do not tempt; they grow diffident, recede and hibernate.

42) Dick was always diffident when to staff matters and not been ableto summonthe gumption tothe table.

43) If students do not wear the same uniforms, students wearing cheap clothes may have the feeling of self-contempt and be diffident about expressing one's opinions in class.

44) Tall, thin and diffident around the edges, he speaks at twice normal speed, often inserting parenthetical commentary on his thoughts as he gallops ahead.

45) Her conqueror, Senator Pete Wilson, is a diffident, moderate man.

46) He looked diffident, and amiable, and independent, and he, too, was evidently English.

47) Your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself conspicuous by some solecism or blunder.

48) Allison: So tell me Joe... How come a man as attractive, intelligent, well-spoken... diffident in the most seductive way, and yet... powerful... is all alone in this world?

49) The simulation test can study the movement law of pollutant diffusion under the diffident hydrodynamic condition.

50) The Communist Party is diffident about laying claim to any development model that other countries might copy.

51) I know I am very diffident and introversive(), even seriously depressed.

52) He felt a little diffident about asking concerning her success.

53) This boy, still midget but already diffident with a kind of rangy ease, is the best of the six.

54) In the diffident manner was nothing of the art of the courtesan.

55) On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret.

56) A diffident, shuffling stick figure on stage, at the keyboard he had a penchant for lugubrious tempos, affecting profundity and a crashing, bombastic virtuosity.

57) I am fond of a diffident way which I see you to exhibit.