diffident
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Appeared in the March 11, 2026, print edition as 'A Diffident Trump?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Diffident, aggressive and often startlingly funny, the storyteller Daniel Kitson brings his new work to Brooklyn.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
Diffident Londoners aren't really her type any more, she says.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
David Blunkett writes: Diffident and understated Dave Sheasby certainly was, but he also had talent which, had he resided in London, would have been sung from the rooftops.
From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2010
Diffident, dif′i-dent, adj. wanting faith in: distrustful of one's self: modest: bashful.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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