diffidence

Obama can exhibit strains of personal diffidence, even condescension, toward people, especially critics.

Matthew, like your co-star Hugh Grant in this movie, possesses a kind of debonair diffidence.

Mr. Addison, whose abilities no man can doubt, was from diffidence totally unable to speak in the house.

Such as this translation is I offer it with diffidence, realising that I have undertaken a difficult task.

There came a little bubble of laughter from Peggy, which seemed to remove all diffidence from Collingwood.

For a time I attributed your reserve to diffidence, and trusted that time and my efforts would dissipate it.

With a slight protest of diffidence, the Doctor unfolded the paper, scanned the page for an instant, and began slowly.