self-distrusting
- a word derived from self-distrust.
Example Sentences
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It is true that the wealthy heiress had lured on her self-distrusting lover to make a declaration which he had not contemplated; but who will charge her with unmaidenly conduct?
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
The desponding, self-distrusting side of his nature said, "No. Why should she?"
From Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Her resolution astonished her friends, for they knew her to have a very timid and self-distrusting character, and the situation in which she was thus suddenly placed would have appalled even a stout heart.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
Worse yet, what must he think of me as a wife?” she asked herself, and each question left her more bitterly humiliated, more self-distrusting, more unhappy.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
Therefore a self-distrusting Christian can say, and say without exaggeration or presumption, 'I can do all things in Christ, strengthening me from within.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
