Sentence examples similar to a touch diffident from inspiring English sources
A high court judge famously branded him as "devious, truculent and unreliable", and in interviews he has always appeared diffident, a touch arrogant and always uncomfortable.
One, Tom Musgrave, is a conceited flirt; another, Lord Osborne, is a diffident aristo; a third, Mr Howard, is a sententious clergyman.
He is a proud disrupter not a diffident conformist.
Melding sustained organ chords with slow fingerpicked guitar, the Papercuts' music merged Velvet Underground ballads with touches of the Byrds, while Jason Quever sang in a high, diffident voice about elusive love.
Hindman was an excellent administrator but a diffident battlefield commander.
She was of a helpless, fleshy build, with a frank, open countenance and an innocent, diffident manner.
It was a diffident performance by a diffident band that has worked hard to avoid becoming a world-music act.
With only acoustic guitars, a not very grand piano and a diffident personality, Rossen strips such songwriting bare.
