self-effacement
Example Sentences
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Self-effacement always goes down well with the British.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2012
Self-effacement is not a quality of the 93 old Senators over whom Vice President Garner will preside this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Self-effacement for the good of others had always seemed to her both natural and necessary; but then she had taken it for granted that it implied the securing of that good.
From Bunner Sisters by Wharton, Edith
Self-effacement, he learned, was rather a futile virtue after all.
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon
