lacking confidence
Example Sentences
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The 30-year-old artist from Idaho found herself lacking confidence and routinely deferring to her older partner, a dynamic she attributed in part to a disparity in life experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
"It causes problems if the role-players are lacking confidence or over-enthusiastic and the key learning points can get lost," said lecturer Alex Williams.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
It was difficult to see Spence that way: depleted, beaten, lacking confidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Were Biles to go out there lacking confidence — were she to spin out of control — there could be serious consequences.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
Soon he became a timid, shrinking lad, utterly lacking confidence in the strength of his arms and his skill with an oar and a sail; and after that came to pass, his life was hard.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan
