Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.

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Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances.

(of a person) Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness.

Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen.

Fair; good enough; okay.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

Significant; substantial.

(obsolete) Comely; shapely; well-formed.

* A sable stole of cyprus lawn / Over thy decent shoulders drawn — Milton.