I am not diffident about the event in the conditional clause.
2007-02-06 17:04:57
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answer #1
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answered by Night Wind 4
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1. showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"
2. lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man"
He lived naturally in a condition that many greater poets never had, or if they had it, were embarrassed or diffident about it: a total commitment to his own powers of invention, a complete loss of himself in his materials.
-- James Dickey, "The Geek of Poetry", New York Times, December 23, 1979
This schism is embodied in Clarence's two sons: cheerful, pushy, book-ignorant Jared, a semicriminal entrepreneur who has caught "the rhythm of America to come" and for whom life is explained in brash epigrams from the trenches, versus slow, diffident Teddy, the town postman, uncomfortable with given notions of manhood, uncompetitive ("yet this seemed the only way to be an American") and disturbed that others misstate "the delicate nature of reality as he needed to grasp it for himself."
-- Julian Barnes, "Grand Illusion", New York Times, January 28, 1996
Minny was too delicate and diffident to ask her cousin outright to take her to Europe.
-- Brooke Allen, "Borrowed Lives", New York Times, May 16, 1999
2007-02-06 17:02:00
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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During an interview, a prospective employer would tend to overlook the candidature of a diffident applicant, as that may mean the candidate lacks initiative.
2007-02-06 18:09:08
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answered by greenhorn 7
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There was a crooked man, And he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked stile. Beside a crooked stile, He bought a crooked cat, Which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together In a little crooked house.
2016-05-24 02:07:03
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answered by Jean 4
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You shouldn't be so diffident about your achievement- you've done very well!
2007-02-06 20:47:27
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answered by Anonymous
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I heard somebody hit your car.
That's it there?
No. It's a diffident.
2007-02-06 17:28:16
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answered by Wattsup! 3
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