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Six example sentences with diffident, each labelled with its topic.
The diffident student had the best answer every week but raised her hand only after three others had spoken.
Psychology
Diffident onstage, the guitarist stared at his shoes for the first two songs before the crowd's response loosened him.
Music
Too diffident to name a price, the founder let the buyer open the bidding and lost several million dollars.
Startups
The diffident rookie passed up open shots for a month, until the coach told him he would be benched for not shooting.
Basketball
The novel's diffident narrator apologizes for his own opinions so often that readers stop trusting anything he praises.
Literature
Too diffident to present her own results, the young chemist let a colleague read the paper at the conference.
Science
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