0 shy and without any confidence -- неуверенный в себе, застенчивый
a diffident young man
I am diffident enough to suggest that journalists have rights.
We are diffident about making arrangements which appear to benefit us.
The only trouble is that it makes somebody like myself pretty diffident about getting on to his feet at all.
The diffident way in which that possibility was inserted into the debate was touching.
Those who are present are diffident in coming forward to give their encomiums above the coffin.
One almost feels diffident about creeping into one's tailor's establishment to get a patch put on a favourite garment.
He appears, by turn, charming and paranoiac, generous and ambitious, diffident and scheming, humorous and disappointed (one is tempted to say, rather like the rest of us).
This has a diffident and whimsical character, portrayed on a larger scale too by the music's inability actually to get anywhere (it keeps on returning to its opening gesture).
