Voorbeelden van false modesty

• This was not false modesty, nor any modesty at all, but neither did he consider her simply his superior.

• Even his most critical admirers would not frequently accuse him of false modesty, undue diffidence, or lack of confidence.

• Many times under the cloak of false modesty we are afraid to touch the matters with which they dealt.

• I say "do my best" not out of false modesty, but because it is a grey area.

• I do not ask it of any broadcasters, because they suffer from no false modesty at all.

• Rather than simply saying that she has saved money, will she explain, without false modesty, what added value she has brought to her position?

• But it does not require any false modesty for us to say that we are far below him in the appreciation of the use of words.

• This is not false modesty.