Our own Canadian dreams are not so different, although we are somewhat diffident in proclaiming them.

A mercantile lawyer who had been somewhat diffident as a junior judge in the Court of Common Pleas, Cresswell was a bachelor with a reputation for impatience and a short temper.

It may well prove that the strong-willed girl will complement Belgarion's somewhat diffident nature, which has given us all some concern.

But she had dragged the apron away from her face, and was looking with some puzzlement at meek, gentle little Jeanne, who had suddenly become so strange, so dictatorial, all unlike her habitual somewhat diffident self.

He was a charming but somewhat diffident young man who had introduced himself during another meeting weeks ago.

Yours is perhaps a bit overstated, ours somewhat diffident.

Agape returned, and they had a somewhat diffident reunion.

In July, Goodman wrote that both Mackay and Jones had become somewhat diffident in the matter of huge capitalization.

At the same time, I'm sure you will agree that Microsoft is somewhat diffident about playing politics.

Somewhat diffident about attention and reluctant to do public speaking he routinely denies requests for interviews and speeches to large audiences.