Diffident in a sentence as an adjective

More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?

If someone seems diffident, you might say they don't want the job very badly, right?

For the most part, the men looked diffident, oblivious.

Think Michael Jackson: painfully diffident in private, but a monster on stage.

All this time the diffident caller sat quietly in the adjoining room, barred from the master only by flimsy portieres.

Sane is in the eye of the beholder.. gevent looks nice, but I'd be very diffident when it comes to actually supporting it in production.

As a relative novice to computing, I felt a little diffident showing up at Hackers, but everyone there was really nice.

As for physical goods I don't think most physical kickstarter projects aim for 25% margins, especially when you look at all the diffident tiers.

I can be introverted, pessimistic and diffident, for example, and I would cheerfully discard those traits even if doing so wouldn't get me laid.

I mean it sounds quite unnecessarily labor intensive to just create a fork and start merging those PR:s?That way the barrier for moving to a diffident fork would be lowered.

I'm somewhat surprised that none of the other manufacturers has brought a similar product to market yet - well, a few have, but in a muted, almost diffident fashion.

But that's incompatible with live demonstration, unless the purpose is to embarrass myself and make me look completely incompetent or diffident.

Cocks was quite diffident and very much still a rookie, whereas Patterson fully appreciated the context of the problem and was more capable of addressing the technical questions that would inevitably arise.

If, in a given case, we represent ourselves as staking the happiness of our whole life, the triumphant tone of our judgment is greatly abated; we become extremely diffident, and discover for the first time that our belief does not reach so far. Thus pragmatic belief always exists in some specific degree, which, according to differences in the interests at stake, may be large or may be small.

Even most American men I know today would be diffident about saying something like, "Hey Jessica, I notice you've been signing up for doing reports for the last two projects; do you want to work in the machine shop for this one instead while I do the reports?

Diffident definitions

adjective

showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"

adjective

lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"

See also: timid unsure