Diffident is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIFFIDENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• hesitant in acting or speaking
• modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence
• lacking self-confidence
• Wanting confidence in others; distrustful.
• Wanting confidence in one\'s self; distrustful of one\'s own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
• showing modest reserve
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence

Words related to DIFFIDENT

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Words that contain DIFFIDENT

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How to use DIFFIDENT in a sentence

• Langton put the question, about the proposal of which I had been so diffident, to Mr.
• In reality it endowed at once the most diffident of women with lasting fame.
• She was rather diffident and held him in safe channels of conversation.
• To us he appears diffident, retiring, and rather weak, in a way, while in his intercourse with Goldstein he shows a mailed fist.
• You are not the man to be diffident of yourself in such a matter.
• Bob was a little diffident about going in, after the trick he had played, but the nervous passenger seemed to forget all about that.
• At the class-dinner he had seen poor Overbrook, in a shiny blue serge business-suit, being diffident in a corner with three other failures.
• The oppressive fear of criticism was gone, but a diffident loneliness remained.
• The literature of Avebury, not quite so copious as that of the stones of the Plain, is also more diffident in its guessing.
• With young and diffident men Alicia had a pleasant instinct for conducting herself as smilingly as though they were the greatest wits about the town.
• The poet, diffident of his own inspiration, sought inspiration from books.
• Thompson, habitually diffident, asked no questions, struck up no conversations after the free and easy manner of the North.
• I began the work because I was unprepared to treat any more arduous subject, and diffident of my own powers.
• But the Earl was too proud and perhaps too diffident to make the attempt.
• He was a man of few words, naturally diffident of his colloquial powers, and easily confused and abashed.
• Though naturally meek and diffident, when it came to matters of duty and conviction he was courageous, self-sacrificing, and brave beyond any mere man known to history.
• He had been so diffident, so generous at the beginning, that she had been almost ashamed of the poor return which was all that she could make.
• Ruth and Alice felt a little diffident about going to the studio again, especially after the scene with the jealous actresses.
• It was a feeling of sympathetic concern, yet diffident, apologetic.
• Now the scene had changed, and Joel was no longer the diffident youth, but a man, competent and energetic.
• No one is so diffident as he, no one so self-postponing.
• Never a rapid speaker, he was then so slow and diffident, that he feared that this defect might interfere with his legal career.
• Yet her laugh bore a certain note of sympathy and appreciation which harmonized out of it all quality that might have hurt or abashed the most diffident exile.
• He had become so diffident, and his head felt so confused, that he would gladly have sat down for a moment to rest and compose himself.
• She gave her rare caresses shyly, with averted eyes, and she was always more diffident with her mother than with her father.
• His eyes were blue and watery, his manner peculiarly diffident.
• At first she had been a little apologetic and diffident about her offspring.
• Many people are shy, diffident, self-conscious, and painfully embarassed in the presence of strangers.
• Dumiger, like most men of deep thought and habits of abstraction, was diffident.
• Miss Trapper was admitted to be a very modest and diffident creature, because she had a slight stoop in the back, which was chronic.
• Vesey, indeed, gentle and diffident, dreamed not of any competition, but Mrs.
• In the society of ladies he was extremely diffident and unobtrusive, and always apprehensive lest he should be unable to entertain them agreeably.

Similar words containing DIFFID without suffix ent

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