| Was the miners' apparent diffidence at the event motivated by political considerations? |
| He is paid to be serious, but his default mode is loose and playful, with a touch of hipster diffidence. |
| Another shortcoming of the book is Atkinson's diffidence in examining the role of an airmobile division, the Army's only one. |
| Other children sometimes mis-interpret your little Virgo's shyness as diffidence or stand-offishness. |
| His gentleness, diffidence, enthusiasm, his sense of fun, his quietly mocking spirit enslaved everyone. |
| It is with diffidence and humility that I greet the ultimate constitutional power in the Republic, the Presidential electors. |
