But we must be careful, now that we are reaching the end of these proceedings, not to be excessively self-deprecating about what we have done.
Those members of the committee who served with him would not accept his self-deprecating remarks.
I know that he has gentle and self-deprecating good humour.
He also had a sense of humour, which, it must be said, sometimes was self-deprecating.
He was also self-deprecating in his enjoyment of his own caricatures, and he would have detested today's trends towards sound bites and image spin makers.
Although he is always self-deprecating, he is a lawyer of considerable experience.
He was somewhat self-deprecating when he categorised some of the work that he deals with in his surgeries as low-level administrative work.
Her self-deprecating humour belied the seriousness of purpose with which she approached the subject of adoption.
