0 in a way that tries to make yourself, your abilities, or your achievements seem less important: --
At a pre-arranged press conference, he strode on stage clad in a pale suit, hands self-deprecatingly by his side.
He is approaching 50 via a midlife crisis narrated self-deprecatingly and very humorously in his diary.
To a packed house, she self-deprecatingly asked, "How many of you are family?"
He talked, self-deprecatingly , about the similarities between himself and his character on the show.
