Examples of using Diffident in English and their translations into Spanish
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He is a little shy and diffident.
But if you are diffident about yourself then you cannot do it.
Do you even know what"diffident" means?
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Can you imagine so diffident a lover,?
With this business of the trial,he's become too diffident.
He seems a little bit diffident when Ullman says.
At such times,her manner should be sedate and diffident.
Our modern time is diffident towards any authority.
You brought so many people to make a big fuss here. Because you're diffident.
A prudent wine,' he would say,'rather diffident and evasive, but quite prudent.'.
Generally, other believers who encounter Satan become frozen and diffident.
The patient tends to be diffident and inhibitive, if not, negative and suspicious.
Juliano is very intelligent and faithful,although grumpy and diffident of strangers.
Adams was a diffident young man who was naturally reluctant to publish a result that would establish or ruin his career.
As for David Ricardo,self-taught and diffident, he scarcely acted as a Great Man.
People seemed to care more for him with that name,they seemed less diffident.
When he opens them again, they are bright but diffident, full of disquieting memories.
The text was rather diffident about the link between migration and development and did not reflect the views expressed by Committee members on that subject during the day of general discussion in December 2005.
She was less shy than before, but still seemed softer,more diffident than her mate.
As diffident Western leaders offer garbled messages or, worse, mere verbal fluff, they allow cynical actors with simpler and more forceful narratives, often based on lies and distortions, to win support more easily.
Considering the seriousness of the global crises, diffident and ambiguous language will get us nowhere.
Though the very next day Cuvier retracted, Lyell reported only the dismissal to Mantell,who became rather diffident about the issue.
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
I wish I could render the curious appeal of his personality,recall how temperate he was, how modest and elegantly diffident, yet always full of a pure, spontaneous joy.
The Secretariat is requested to take a clear position in support of Lebanon.It should not be satisfied with making diffident comments on the Israeli threats against and violations of Lebanon's independence and sovereignty that have not ceased since the adoption of resolution 1701 2006.
During an interview on Channel 4 television's"Royal House of Windsor", she revealed that, contrary to the prevalent assumption, the fatal abandonment by the British of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children to the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution was not due to the callousness of the British government of the day,but to the reluctance of his diffident cousin King George V. In 2017 she published a memoir, Princess Olga, A Wild and Barefoot Romanov.
These wrongs, both new and ancient,have left their mark on the character of the people. Diffident towards others, and jealous of their own feelings.