Prising open a box of cigars, he sniffed it with the suspicion of inexperience and proffered it diffidently to Oakleigh.
Rare groups of sight-seers approached the deserted gates of Trinity and Balliol, sought inspiration from guide-books and vanished diffidently from view.
When the parson had got to his feet again, Aunt Esther All diffidently touched his elbow.
When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
The Popadya put out the candles and the lamps and diffidently commenced: "Vassya!
And he began to pace the floor slowly and diffidently with faint and shaking limbs.
I turned where I stood, and was about to pass diffidently on, when one of the most unexpected things that can come to a man at midnight happened to me.
Then he dropped diffidently into the seat next to the man in the cape overcoat, not five feet from where I sat.
When the train ran into the station he asked diffidently if he might be allowed to drive her home.
They had had one or two little scenes at Roya-Neh; the girl even hesitated, unquietly curious, perplexed at her own attitude, yet diffidentlyinterested in the man.
Harry diffidently mentioned the schooner, and his father drew down his brows.
Once more he knocked, but more loudly, less diffidently than before.
Therefore when the Queen of France chose to speak as if Madame la Comtesse de Stainville did not even exist, and Monsieur de Louvois diffidently but firmly begged her to stand aside, she boldly refused.
And Augusta at first pecking diffidently at the typewriter, and then striking boldly for herself into untried waters, found herself at the end of three days almost hopelessly bewildered and drifting.
Her eyes sought those of the girl who sat beside her, and something that she read in them told her what had happened, even before Monica diffidently whispered the good news.
For a few moments the girl remained silent, then, the lovely tint deepening in her cheeks, she suggested diffidently that the people who were annoying Thessalie had been hired to do it by others more easy to handle, if discovered.
Dulcie, in the beginning, diffidently aware of this, had now become entirely accustomed to it, and no longer felt any responsibility to remain motionless while he was busy with red chalk or charcoal.
The question was decided by the dog, who was applying for admission at the door beyond the passage, somewhat diffidently and cautiously.
I think it is only to show how diffidently he makes the suggestion.
He balanced first on one foot and then on the other for a moment; then diffidently drew up a chair.
Diffidently he broached the subject with Miss Sarah, approaching it in a roundabout fashion least likely to deceive that bright-eyed little lady.
She camediffidently to the second meeting of the board.
If she had let him diffidently make love to her, it was not because she cared, but because she did not care, because it did not matter.
Diffidently enough, he came; but at the first inkling of the girl's news all thought of diffidence or of privacy vanished.
The others stopped, stared diffidently at the steadily pointing pistol, then wavered and fell back.
He dropped back against the chair and peereddiffidently into space.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diffidently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
