0 the quality of trying to make yourself, your abilities, or your achievements seem less important:
She was unconcerned by fame and modest to the point of self-deprecation.
Her ambition was masked by a veneer of elegant self-deprecation.
He portrayed himself with self-deprecation even as he set about building something ambitious.
When we began the interview, he warned me, with merry self-deprecation, that he suffers from "nominal aphasia," or the inability to reproduce names.
Afterward, he said he thought the president's self-deprecation made him seem "more likable."
He seems to understand the right balance of self-deprecation to mild insult to tell effective jokes in the workplace.
But then, as the guitars build and then explode into a wall of noise, the self-deprecation morphs into a declaration of reluctant self-love.
His candidness to the point of self-deprecation was viewed as a coping mechanism, but it was generally respected by those around him.
I am not laughing with you, in other words, since you seem capable of neither doubt nor self-deprecation.
