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self-deprecating

[ US /ˌsɛɫfˈdɛpɹəˌkeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. conscious of your own shortcomings

How To Use self-deprecating In A Sentence

  • I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan. Archive 2006-04-01
  • This mixes feminism with funny, cool with competent, self-deprecating with powerbroker. The Sun
  • Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
  • Both stories are agreeably self-deprecating and rimed with snark.
  • Their humor was either cruel or crude, and never self-deprecating, which is the true test - if you can't make fun of yourself, you sure as hell can't make fun of someone else. February 2004
  • She is anxious me – the me that my own mother refers to as a worrier - and she is self-deprecating me. Like To Get To Know You Well | Her Bad Mother
  • Between songs you get Chris talking straight to the camera, making goofy self-deprecating jokes in his aw-shucks kind of way.
  • Out of all the nations that make up the Union of Great Britain, England, at times, shows the most self-deprecating, wimpish and rudderless sense of national pride one could imagine.
  • His self-deprecating, nice-guy demeanour is comforting, but he's rarely funnier than your funniest friend on an off night.
  • Celebrate our Australianness by showing our usual mistrustful, self-deprecating, egalitarian, good-natured detestation of all such symbols of overt self-glorification.
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