Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with diffident below are plain text.
How to pronounce diffident
“diffident” pronunciation in real English speech
Listen to diffident in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“diffident” in real sentences
46 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
You're nicely diffident about fame.
60 Minutes Australia
-
Kind of diffident or you know snoody.
The 92nd Street Y
-
more sort of awkward and diffident and Crowley as tweaked by Terry got when
Penguin Books UK
-
One of the things that separates confident from diffident people is their approach to history.
The School of Life
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of diffident. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.