self-effacing
Example Sentences
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He has a wide smile and an easygoing, self-effacing way about him.
From Los Angeles Times
When Harris acted the way that vice presidents normally do — subservient, self-effacing, careful never to poach the spotlight from the chief executive — it was seen as a failing.
From Los Angeles Times
He made Barack Obama look modest and self-effacing.
In those days very few companies, least of all life and health insurers, would have dared to engage in self-effacing humor.
Is it possible that today we are seeing a decisive erosion in popular tolerance of Biya's self-effacing version of semi-authoritarian rule?
From BBC
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