Synonym: bashful, coy, demure, shy, timid. Similar words: stream of consciousness, conscious, unconscious, consciously, subconscious, consciousness, semiconscious, subconsciously. Meaning: adj. 1. aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts 2. excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior.
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31. When the choir commenced the first carol, even the most self-conscious among them burst into song.
32. I was self-conscious about my body to a painful degree, and terrified lest the weight came back.
33. They began to tease each other and the experimenters with self-conscious relish.
34. A spirit of nationalism, national self-conscious ness, and loyalty to constituted authority were in embryonic evidence.
35. It was hell on earth at first, the party, with everyone awkward and self-conscious.
36. His proper names show the same self-conscious striving for a romantic atmosphere.
37. The comedy of reassurance, still, but with a self-conscious, ironic twist that Bruce Forsyth would never have dreamed of.
38. No doubt, as meal times were such a major effort, people were less self-conscious about weight or diet.
39. Essential to his effort was the restoration of a vigorous and self-conscious clerical caste.
40. Neither he nor his wife were remotely self-conscious about this.
41. Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop, which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious.
42. She is the least self-conscious creature I have ever met.
43. The superintendent divined from the self-conscious way he carried himself that Hebden wished he had.
44. In the end the Albertos are a colourful footnote to the sometimes self-conscious rock culture of the 70s.
45. From a state of poise and self-confidence,(www.Sentencedict.com) she was suddenly overwhelmingly self-conscious.
46. Mary had provoked sensations of his childhood; one of them was this womb-echoing self-conscious snugness indoors, safe from outside turbulence.
47. One minute they were sitting there looking self-conscious and the next they were roaring with laughter.
48. Their well-groomed coats gleam like a couple of sleek self-conscious thoroughbreds.
49. The second dimension implies the need for self-conscious implementation of equal opportunities and the questioning and revision of routine practices.
50. Here, attempts to bossa nova merely produced a self-conscious lateral sway.
51. It has to be closely supervised but provides a good job for any adult who might be feeling somewhat self-conscious.
52. At first, there were faint murmurings, barely audible even within the row, and self-conscious answers from the team leader.
53. She has repeatedly emphasized that her novels are linguistically self-conscious explicitly in order to translate the apprehension of the problematic area of language.
54. It is not a deliberate, self-conscious activity[sentencedict.com], but a natural process that takes place unconsciously.
55. The first is one of a self-conscious confusion, the second of discomfort at being a lesbian.
56. The scene inside the lobby restaurant of the studio did nothing to make me less self-conscious.
57. This is involved in becoming aware of oneself as a self-conscious moral agent.
58. I found it boring, self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it's based.
59. The movement was also programmatically self-conscious, one of the modernist tropes.
60. His self-conscious gaucheness vanished as if it had evaporated in the thin cold air of the mountains and he found friends.
More similar words: stream of consciousness, conscious, unconscious, consciously, subconscious, consciousness, semiconscious, subconsciously, self-contempt, conscientious, self-confidence, unconscionable, conscience, age of consent, conscript, vicious, specious, gracious, spacious, precious, officious, capacious, vivacious, salacious, delicious, malicious, rapacious, tenacious, fallacious, ferocious.