Similar words: efface, self-esteem, effacement, ineffaceable, bracing, menacing, self-deprecating, ineffable. Meaning: adj. reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
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31. He is gracious and self-effacing, complimenting their beauty while asking them to please excuse his poor spelling and punctuation.
32. My father, so self-effacing in normal life, would wake up, call our names, say how much he loved us and blow kisses, before succumbing once more to the exhaustion that was pulling him away from us.
33. Men who use self-effacing terms, such as "sorry" and "awkward", are also more likely to get responses.
34. Any student of Washington's life might have predicted that he would acknowledge his election in a short, self-effacing speech full of disclaimers.
35. The shoes and socks were a declaration of individual love in a country obsessed with the self-effacing collective.
36. From the Palestinian comedienne with cerebral palsy to the Arab American with a New Jersey accent,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Muslim comics in the film offer positive images of these ethnic cultures with self-effacing wit.
37. He also is self-effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.
38. One self-effacing Cobbe, the writer Frances, famously said of her family that it was "chiefly remarkable for never having done anything remarkable''.
39. Self-effacing to the last, he had his ashes scattered off England's coast at Eastbourne—the scene of happy holidays with the Marxes.
40. Childless and twice married, the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union often comes off as reserved and self-effacing.
41. Self-effacing, a trifle austere, he nevertheless exudes a benign humanity from the top of his monkish haircut to his scuffed toe-caps.
42. But Barack Obama's self-effacing approach to summitry – one that was on Thursday remarked upon by several non-US officials – certainly did no harm.
43. They tend to underestimate their own skills and are more self-effacing when describing their contributions to group efforts.
44. When Bush nominated him again four years later, Gates defused his critics with self-effacing humor and humility and was confirmed easily.
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