self-distrust
noun
lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
self-distrustful
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a word derived from
self-distrust.
Example Sentences
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Others, again, humble, self-distrustful natures, whose only pride came through love, have nothing left them except rags.
From Mistress and Maid by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
It was as if a ’prentice-hand had tried to express the soul of an artist, too self-distrustful to work more boldly.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
She used to say that fashionable and distinguished people were the least likely to observe those things, but that the sensitive and self-distrustful were apt to be almost morbidly alive to every indication of neglect.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
They must be babes, by which is meant not such as are innocent, but such as are reliant on a higher Power, self-distrustful, willing to obey.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
One after another, even the most reluctant and self-distrustful of the revellers found themselves caught up into active participation in the figure.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
