Using "diffident" in a sentence

Jérémie Laheurte plays a diffident but dogged young cop based on an actual turn-of-the-last-century Paris policeman.
Source: The New York Times

Boy Willie has blown into Pittsburgh with his more diffident buddy Lymon (Ray Fisher) and a truckload of watermelons to sell.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

It’s always heartening to watch a clumsy, diffident geek find himself in song and through love, but something special happens when he’s played by an Asian American actor.
Source: SF Chronicle Datebook

Characterized by a lack of vanity and diffident self-presentation, yet a commanding way of sharing ideas, Ginet said, Shoemaker “was deeply admired by every philosopher who knew him.
Source: Cornell Chronicle

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