self-conscious

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Zadie Smith quit keeping a diary because the exercise made her feel phony and self-conscious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

I also feel very self-conscious whenever I chat to George when no-one else is around as I'm acutely aware that it's just me speaking aloud in an empty room to a chatbot.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

“To see him turned into this frightened, unsure, self-conscious human being, it wasn’t him.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

But it is dealing with like, “How much do I want to see? How self-conscious am I?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

I’d grown tired of both the bathroom and the library, and enough time had passed that I no longer felt too self-conscious about eating alone.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi