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self-effacing
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  • He cracked a self-effacing grin.†  (source)
  • I thought he might shift from the self-effacing Abnegation leader to the nightmare I knew at home, that he might lash out and reveal himself for who he is.†  (source)
  • And in Ira's Pima culture being quiet and self-effacing was encouraged.†  (source)
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  • Finnick's real charms of self-effacing humor and an easygoing nature are on display for the first time.†  (source)
  • She reminds me of my mother; what I loved most in Mother was her self-effacement, her 'dimness,' as they say, and it's she I've always wanted to get back to.†  (source)
  • He was tall, with a clean jaw and modest mustache, and wore a cheap suit; in his thirties; good looking, in a way, but at the same time self-effacing and plain—though at the moment he appeared to be angry.†  (source)
  • However, whenever his eyes met David's father's, the expression on his face tended to freeze into one of ingratiating self-effacement.†  (source)
  • Totally out of character, but in case anyone should ever refer to them, he had better restudy the "facts" so he could at least nod in self-effacing modesty.†  (source)
  • "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.†  (source)
  • Esther Winship's apartment was lavishly understated, beiges, off-whites, great staid sofas that did not give when you sat, and expanses of dunnish rug, deep-piled, and almost no pictures, and the few pictures Esther elected to hang were self-effacing to the point of who cares, and the place had so much attitude, all tension and edge, that Jack seemed largely lost here.†  (source)
  • This self-effacement in both directions had been quite in consonance with her independent character of desiring nothing by way of favour or pity to which she was not entitled on a fair consideration of her deserts.†  (source)
  • I am glad to be living with this kind couple, whose quiet, self-effacing manner I am coming to understand.†  (source)
  • At half-past ten Tibby, with rare self-effacement, fell asleep, and Margaret was able to drive her aunt to the station.†  (source)
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