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self conscious
adjective as in inhibited
adjective as in mannered
adjective as in modest
adjective as in self-conscious
adjective as in sheepish
adjective as in bashful
adjective as in strained
adjective as in uncomfortable
Strongest matches
adjective as in ill at ease
adjective as in la-di-da
Weak matches
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
adjective as in self-effacing
Strongest matches
adjective as in conscious
adjective as in diffident
Strongest matches
adjective as in humble
Strongest matches
adjective as in ill at ease
adjective as in insecure with oneself
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Example Sentences
Bop had produced self-conscious artists who refused to bow to conventional assumptions of what was entertaining.
The thing you become self-conscious about is being manhandled.
Growing up, Trainor was very self-conscious about her curves, often wishing she could be svelte like her high school friends.
And so the visitor, feeling a little self-conscious, starts examining individual images.
Like Nate, the novel is literarily self-conscious, but Nate often reads to show off.
For the first time in his life Gwynne felt self-conscious in putting his arm about a woman's waist for the waltz.
He possessed the same personal charm as Tchaikovsky, but was far more sophisticated and self-conscious.
For the first time in her life she was self-conscious: I will wait for a more opportune time to tell him, she thought.
She was tall and stately, but I thought she walked too stiffly; she seemed self-conscious and artificial.
So that she looked up at her aunt in happy freedom from any self-conscious embarrassment.
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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self-conscious, such as: anxious, awkward, bashful, embarrassed, mannered, and nervous.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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