Voorbeelden van diffidently

• "I suppose so," Jane admitted diffidently.

• Joseph made his suggestion diffidently in the uncomfortable silence.

• Diffidently, he asked her if she would like to go to the movies with him one evening.

• I must confess, speaking very diffidently, that what he said about that caused me some perplexity.

• I submit that point, very diffidently, for consideration.

• She thought that if sanctions did not achieve the aims she hoped rather diffidently for we would fall back upon the use of force.

• I would be the last to suggest, even diffidently, that these are things on which they can rush forward with resolutions and decisions.

• I want to make one or two points very diffidently, indeed.