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Shyness (also
called diffidence) is the
feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or
awkwardness especially when a
person is
around other people. This...
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Playwright Robert E.
Sherwood described him as "almost
painfully shy ...
diffident" and self-deprecating.
According to his
biographer Richard Schickel, Disney...
- Pitt's performance.
Janet Maslin of The New York
Times said, "Pitt's
diffident mix of
acting and
attitude works to such
heartthrob perfection it's a...
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bases this
judgement on
three considerations;
first Muhammad is very
diffident about his own position, he
accepts the
Pagan tribes within the Umma, and...
- film
celebrates these types of
adoration without exalting them, and the
diffident types of
audiophiles who move
about Harriet’s
universe charm their way...
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Sticks Out Half a Mile.
Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), a
diffident, upper-middle-class
chief bank
clerk who
often quietly questions Mainwaring's...
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altogether good-natured (although
cerebrally good-natured)."
Shostakovich was
diffident by nature:
Flora Litvinova has said he was "completely
incapable of saying...
- that he
possessed much more energy, both
mental and physical, than his
diffident father.
Philip was
idealized by his
contemporaries as the
model of Baroque...
- "faith, trust", from
fidere "to trust" confidante, confidence, confident,
diffident, faith, fealty, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel, perfidious,
perfidy fig-...
- done in the case of
Julius Cæsar". More
recent dictionaries are more
diffident: the
online edition of the OED (2021)
mentions "the
traditional belief...
