Similar words: efface, self-esteem, effacement, ineffaceable, bracing, menacing, self-deprecating, ineffable. Meaning: adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
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1. He was the most self-effacing of men - the last thing he would have relished was a eulogy.
2. The captain was typically self-effacing when questioned about the team's successes, giving credit to the other players.
3. As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
4. In spite of her success, she remains self-effacing and reserved.
5. She's brilliant but self-effacing.
6. Purple sandpipers arc the most self-effacing of birds.
7. She'd been almost too self-effacing, he thought.
8. They were brilliant, self-effacing men.
9. Jack faced this minor crisis with typical self-effacing humor.
10. Ossyane's self-effacing voice fashions an intimate history from political upheaval.
11. He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
12. Her husband was a quiet,[Sentence dictionary] self-effacing man who spent much of his time in his study.
13. A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught, and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity.
14. For a mild, self-effacing family man, substitute a vibrant, powerful family man who pays due tribute to Margaret Thatcher.
15. Seemingly meek and self-effacing, she was in fact strong-willed and fiercely passionate.
16. He was a shy, self-effacing man.
17. The film's climax, when the neurotically private, self-effacing Cunningham is asked about his past experiences with sex and religion, is filmed on a diagonal, from a distance of a few feet.
18. Let yourself be encouraged. Don't be self-effacing or overly modest.
19. But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic - in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention.
20. Howe has been on a roll this spring, making self-effacing, folksy jokes at every opportunity.
21. Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale.
22. Physically attractive and possessed of considerable personal charm, his demeanour was self-effacing, gracious and polite.
23. And there was great admiration for Livingstone's transparent honesty, self-effacing modesty and determination to stick to his guns.
24. In those days women were expected to be quiet, passive and self-effacing.
25. As the story was told I was very gentle and self-effacing, and she was out to damage every-thing that she could.
26. As a race the Brits may sometimes be too self-effacing for our own good.
27. For the woman it could be that she makes jokes all the time, or she could be kind of self-effacing.
28. That camera move is a directorial choice, one of the innumerable decisions that contribute to Mr. Hooper's elegant, self-effacing style.
29. Sensationalism is one aspect of America's bigger-is-better, superlative-crazy culture, one that Graham says has never accepted him, a spindly, self-effacing New Englander who doesn't sugarcoat.
30. Those occasions when the taking of photographs is relatively undiscriminating, promiscuous, or self-effacing do not lessen the didacticism of the whole enterprise.
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