My wrong definition of "diffident" is like the middle ground between "nonchalant" and "dispassionate". I HAVE IT: Alfred in the Batman animated series is diffident a lot. Except he isn't because that's not what it means.
See, this is why this sort of thing bothers me, because I feel that there are very specific meanings connoted which I cannot articulate except with this one word that... does not actually mean that at all.
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Date: 2009-07-27 09:27 pm (UTC)See, this is why this sort of thing bothers me, because I feel that there are very specific meanings connoted which I cannot articulate except with this one word that... does not actually mean that at all.
So I end up flailing like a flailing Zuko.