unassured

If she were worth her salt she would have too much pride to be intimate with a youth in your unassured position, to say no worse.

It recalled to her the ways of his pathetic youth, his youth that obscurity made wild and shy and unassured.

But the four infants who were left would be burden enough for the mother in her unassured and unprotected state.

The first act, however, afforded her so little scope for acting, that she left the stage unassured of her own success.

The sun still shone in heaven, and still Edward's conquest was unassured.