Diffident

He gets along well with most of the residents, not least Chuya “Chu” Tsukamoto (Go Ayano), a diffident young man who had himself committed after he started hearing voices.

He was diffident, friendly, and helpful on points of detail in the production,” Stoppard wrote.

So far, we have seen the soft-spoken Duvall being efficient and compassionate at the same time — and a little diffident too when she gets to partner an older, more experienced detective who she has long admired, Grace Rasmussen (Toni Collette).

The gentry and above are here, all right, although they are, by and large, discreet – even diffident about their lineage.

Dame Hannah asks particularly about Robin Oakapple, a virtuous farmer, but Rose replies that he is too diffident to approach her, and the rules of etiquette forbid her from speaking until she is spoken to.

Nevertheless, Carey continued to set his fiction primarily in Australia and remained diffident about writing explicitly on American themes.