Self-effacing Definition

sĕlfĭ-fāsĭng
adjective
Not drawing attention to oneself; modest.
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Self-effacing Sentence Examples

  • There's nothing he loves more than self-effacing honesty, even if it's usually found in others and rarely himself.

  • Sue has a slightly zany, self-effacing, bubbly personality, which opposes her meticulous, time-consuming love for something bright and beautiful.

  • Under these mute self-effacing kings the progress of royal power was only the more striking.

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