Use of diffident in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include diffident at the start of sentence, diffident at the end of sentence and diffident in the middle of sentence

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diffident at the start of sentence


  1. Diffident, stupid with fatigue, she stood blinking.

diffident at the end of sentence


  1. His fault is that he's too diffident.

diffident in the middle of sentence


  1. He seemed diffident, even shy.
  2. Helen was diffident and reserved.
  3. He has a politely diffident manner.
  4. He was diffident about his own success.
  5. Don't be so diffident about your talents.
  6. He was modest and diffident about his own success.
  7. Joe was humble and diffident about his own success.
  8. He was winsome and diffident, with a quiet sense of humour.
  9. Besides, Bob felt diffident about challenging an older man.
  10. He is diffident about expressing his opinions in the public.
  11. Her former classmates say she was shy and diffident in school.
  12. The Neanderthals seemed unexpectedly gentle and diffident people.
  13. The discipline that journalists have been most diffident about is economics.
  14. Rainbow feels caught out, blushes, nods a diffident assent, but says nothing.
  15. She was diffident, which gave him confidence and fed his sense of superiority.
  16. You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievements - you've done really well!
  17. Dexter glanced at Blanche but she was as inscrutable as usual, diffident but assured.
  18. Mr Coleman is as diffident as his television namesake, at the microphone, is garrulous.
  19. Shaun became noticeably diffident when the conversation turned to the subject of his promotion.
  20. Despite a shy and diffident manner, Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.
  21. His man didn't seem unfriendly more like diffident, nervous, intellectually adrift from his surroundings.
  22. He was good at drawing and did a really charming, diffident design for his own Christmas cards each year.
  23. I was thrilled at the prospect ahead of me but diffident and embarrassed at joining a community so totally unfamiliar.
  24. Nifty reputation Low-key, approachable and diffident, Matheny was the daddy during the golden days of Southwestern College art.
  25. But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.
  26. From being a painfully shy, diffident recluse, he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert.
  27. Their different personalities are reflected in their deportment on court, Davenport's walk far more diffident than Williams's confident strut.

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refractivity -
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The physical property of a medium as determined by its index of refraction.