diffident

She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner.

Dick was always diffident when it came to staff matters, and not been able to summon up the gumption to bang the table.

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

Even really talented people are made to feel diffident and nervous when they are queuing in a long line for an interview.

But in a recent interview with Fox News , the president sounded diffident and nervous about his economic policy .

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

How such arguments are received will depend on how well the diffident former academic is able to make his nation's case.

"I've had experience enough, " said Hurstwood blandly, but he felt a little diffident about referring to Fitzgerald and Moy.

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

We be placed in an inside Chinese language to turn the extreme diffident ages.

When helping deal with a populist anti-corruption campaign this summer he seemed diffident.

Aristocratic languor, critics thought, made him too diffident sometimes on the field.

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

Yet, as in other areas, President Barack Obama's defence of his policy has been strangely diffident.

If you are diffident or inattentive to the balls of life, there is every chance you could be wounded or may lose the game.

Think of your self two years ago. Write about how you are diffident now.

Even relationships within the family are managed by the 1, 200-person IHA, which has not been diffident in sharing its views.

Japanese officials have been more diffident about the agreement and insist their country's sanctions remain in place.

The epistemological imperialism of modern science is a far cry from the cautious empiricism of Bacon and the diffident wisdom of Newton.

Corporal punishment makes a child diffident , withdrawn, and pessimistic.

I'd be less diffident if the men wouldn't differentiate between us all the time.

The quality or state of being diffident; timidity or shyness.

Before last weekend's G20 summit, officials were almost diffident about Beijing's role in helping to design a new financial order.

Diffident stage have diffident space-time feature in football match, time and space can reciprocal translocation in different way.

He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.

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

diffident A series of hard experiences has made the diffident man become confident again.

Many people believe I am a diffident person, but as a matter of fact I'd like to have long talks with close friends.

He is diffident about expressing his opinions.

eg: Are you diffident and panic when found yourself make a mistake in working or performance in duty make the whole thing out of control.

He was too diffident to express his opinion.

He has a politely diffident manner.

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

But the government has remained diffident.

I was diffident about saying so.

His fault is that he's too diffident.

Kong fu and gymnastics are diffident, The Chinese Kong fu have a lot of culture and attack-defend movement. Not only jump.

diffidence The quality or state of being diffident; timidity or shyness

we're naturally very diffident aren' we

Be diffident about doing sth