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 Übersetzung für 'diffident' von Englisch nach Deutsch
ADJ   diffident | more diffident | most diffident
SYNO diffident | shy | timid | ...
diffident {adj}zurückhaltend [zaghaft]
636
diffident {adj}bescheiden
220
diffident {adj}misstrauisch
206
diffident {adj}schüchtern [zaghaft]
145
diffident {adj}unsicher
89
diffident {adj}reserviert
58
diffident {adj}scheu [bescheiden, zaghaft]
41
diffident {adj}zaghaft
39
diffident {adj}verhuscht [ugs.]
24
diffident {adj}zweifelnd
21
2 Wörter
diffident mannerzurückhaltendes Wesen {n}
diffident smileschüchternes Lächeln {n}
12 Übersetzungen
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • Main characteristic is diffident, self-effacing language.
  • "Entertainment Weekly" wrote that "there's something fundamentally warm and cuddly about the mixed-gender quartet's seductive mix of indie-rock cliches (distorted guitars, diffident vocals) and hook-and-harmony-informed popcraft".
  • A mercantile lawyer who had been somewhat diffident as a junior judge in the Court of Common Pleas, Cresswell was a bachelor with a reputation for impatience and a short temper.
  • Noted for his diffident on-stage persona, Chippington avoids observational comedy in favour of anti-humour and jokes which are mostly variations on the same theme, delivered in a West Midlands monotone.
  • Joe is attracted to the comely but diffident Diane, despite his dislike for "chiselers".

  • William was "intelligent and personable, but gentle and diffident" and had qualities that Robert Burns felt that he saw in himself.
  • Piranesi seems to have been "diffident" about the reception of such unusual images, and the first edition title page does not name him as the artist, nor do most of the individual plates.
  • Although highly regarded as a barrister, he was not a successful judge: he was said to be too diffident and sometimes let personal feelings influence his decisions.
  • Calvert was constitutionally diffident, and did not take much part in public affairs except in his opposition to Catholic emancipation.
  • Through merit-cum-need based scholarship, skill-building, counseling and mentoring interventions, we have been transforming academically clever but financially challenged diffident young girls into strong self-confident women leaders in the workplace as well in their communities and for bringing societal change at large.

  • Optimal Escapement Goals (OEGs) consider biological and allocative influences and it may produce a diffident estimate then SEG or BEG goals.
  • According to his former IBM colleagues, Cerutti starkly contrasted with the company's generally diffident management style, and preferred to clearly outline strategies for his teams.
  • Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character.
  • He was so slow and diffident that he feared for his legal career.
  • British science fiction magazine "SFX" dismissed "Zendegi" as "boring", saying that the mood of the book is "strangely diffident: themes tail off, confrontations are dodged, ambitions are deflated, breakthroughs happen to other people".

  • Ian Beckett comments that he had "considerable intellectual ability" but was "diffident and taciturn".
  • s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" The Police were initially diffident about the song, but Miles Copeland III was immediately enthusiastic after hearing it; he became their manager and got them their first record deal with A&M Records.
  • Powell found that contrary to her tigerish reputation, she was "diffident in conversation, articulating with the utmost refinement, [...] always behaved with complete decorum".
  • He was too diffident to write anything on his own account; his only publication of note was an edition of "Hele's Sacred Offices" (a book of devotions which he always used himself) in 1825.
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