lacking confidence
Example Sentences
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The 30-year-old artist from Idaho found herself lacking confidence and routinely deferring to her older partner, a dynamic she attributed in part to a disparity in life experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
"It causes problems if the role-players are lacking confidence or over-enthusiastic and the key learning points can get lost," said lecturer Alex Williams.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024
It was difficult to see Spence that way: depleted, beaten, lacking confidence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023
Lowe had knowledge of the “crazy” currents in the San Juan Islands from previous work and he remembers lacking confidence that the sub’s propulsion was strong enough to fight them.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
But it was not easy for a man like himself, uneducated and lacking confidence of character, to advance as a bolder young man might have done.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
