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And, incidentally, to encourage retiring and diffident lady interviewers.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSHe seemed diffident, but it was evident that he did not wish her to go, and once more she felt that he aroused her curiosity.
THE GOLD TRAILHAROLD BINDLOSSHe reached out and touched my hand––a fleeting, diffident touch––and gently answered, “Ay, lad; your feet will stray.”
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCANHe pushed the diffident greenness back, and went whistling rudely across the lands.
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESIf the tyrannous day of our fathers had but possessed the means of these our more diffident times!
CERES' RUNAWAYALICE MEYNELLNow the scene had changed, and Joel was no longer the diffident youth, but a man, competent and energetic.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, VOL. 2, NO. 2, AUGUST, 1862VARIOUSFreckles broke into an unrestrained laugh, for the bird-lover was keen about his courting, while evidently his mate was diffident.
FRECKLESGENE STRATTON-PORTERThe men who are not known are shy, diffident, doubtful, and anxious to propitiate the chambermaid by great courtesy.
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPEAfter a while she went to call her brother, who came in, lanky and diffident, and was introduced as "George."
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESNancy put out a diffident hand, and her husband clasped it fervently in both his own.
THE DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRESWORDS RELATED TO DIFFIDENT
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- arguable
- chancy
- debatable
- diffident
- disputable
- dubitable
- equivocal
- far-fetched
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- hesitant
- iffy
- improbable
- indecisive
- moot
- mootable
- open
- perplexed
- problematic
- questionable
- reluctant
- shady
- skeptical
- suspect
- suspicious
- touch and go
- trustless
- unassured
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconvinced
- undecided
- undependable
- unlikely
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- wavering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.