Diffidence Synonyms and Antonyms

Diffidence Sentence Examples

• This recording has Pollard playing the bebop heavyweight against Scott's glacial diffidence.

• With habitual diffidence she handed a new manuscript to me and took (to the Ladies) momentary leave.

• In the opinion of the highest authority, Mark Pattison, "as a refutation of Scioppius it is most complete"; but there are certainly grounds for dissenting, though with diffidence, from this judgment.

• We haue been guided by thee hitherto, And of thy Cunning had no diffidence, One sudden Foyle shall neuer breed distrust Bastard.

• The sudden fall of Gambetta (26th January 1882) having removed the fear of immediate European complications, the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna again displayed diffidence towards Italy.