Перевод слова

Перевод: diffident

[прилагательное]
неуверенный в себе; робкий; застенчивый

Тезаурус:

1. Tony DeFries was rather diffident - a little restrained I thought.
2. Frau Nordern coughed in what for her was a diffident manner.
3. Bowie was last seen on the big screen as a diffident Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ.
4. A discriminating host, he was cherished by a wide circle of friends, and in conversation was humble and diffident about his own success.
5. Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out, and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper - which she now undertook to provide - on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed.
6. "Aren't you Sergei Rozanov?" she enquired in a soft, diffident voice.
7. Hazlitt, as he nervously emerges here, is the ordinary mixed-up man confronting the hero-figure of the romantic revival, diffident amid the posturing.
8. Perhaps those who know the truth will be too lazy or too diffident or too poor to publish while whose who believe in error will be so rich, or well organized, or self-confident that they will control the presses and the television studios and dominate the "free market in ideas".
9. Sarah Morgan was sounding diffident but resolute, and as Morgan opened his mouth to protest in exasperation the doorbell rang.
10. But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.
11. For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa, when that was still a hopeless liberal cause, he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories.
12. These are people who were too proud to register for compensation, who were shy about meeting delegations from Tokyo and who were diffident about making a political issue over "our little pollution incident".
13. He was diffident - unlike Ernest who was good at all games - and preoccupied with his country pursuits, but they found him companionable; himself capable of long hours of solitude, he could always find acquaintances ready to share his company for a time; but only a few dedicated companions shared his exacting singleminded concentration on these occupations.