self-effacement
Example Sentences
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But underneath the self-effacement often lies a healthy ego.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
“Fundamentally, it was a terrible hire,” Adamack said with characteristic self-effacement.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022
In between the song and dance, he’d read poems in a similar mode: an intersection of high art and low humor, amusing yet serious, endearing in their self-effacement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
Jensen calls his chosen profession — which he describes, with a tone of self-effacement and a touch of longing, as “glad-handing from table to table to sell wine” — as “fundamentally preposterous.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2021
It is safer, you conclude, to choose self-effacement at this critical moment in your career.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
