How To Use self-effacing In A Sentence
- He seems a genuinely good person, humble and self-effacing, and he's a talented actor and filmmaker.
- ‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis’.
- He may no longer rely on his haircuts to do the talking but he is still shy and self-effacing. Times, Sunday Times
- He was a brilliant attorney with a self-effacing kindness and affability unlike any I have ever seen.
- the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing
- It wasn't in her nature to be coy or self-effacing; she couldn't bring herself to make a polite demurral or plead incompetence where she had none.
- He is so modest and self-effacing which also makes him popular with his peers.
- For the unpretentious, self-effacing actor he was, Joel McCrea had a remarkably varied career.
- He was a humble, self-effacing man, not given to self-aggrandisement of any sort.
- Physically attractive and possessed of considerable personal charm, his demeanour was self-effacing, gracious and polite.