unconfident

Example Sentences

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So confident was the state that the momentum would carry forward with Vigor — and so unconfident someone else would step up — there was no bidding process for the next five ships.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2023

But over the time I’ve spent with Bud and his stable, he has never once exuded the air of an unconfident man.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2023

Instead of the focused burn that we come to find, the opening is a bit shaky, unconfident, more historical litany than the complete focus we begin to exult in later on.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022

The Lester that Freeman refers to is one Lester Nygard, a downtrodden insurance salesman whom the actor describes as "unconfident and pretty much scared of his own shadow".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2014

I was cold, unconfident, obsessed by perfidy, and solitude, and fear.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin