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.
According to this understanding of dignity, servility and self-deprecation are moral defects.
Dependent variables were the factor scores for each of the following: self-deprecation, self-confidence, and fatalistic belief, respectively.
Leaning back in his chair, he spoke softly, pausing frequently to cough -- he had a cold -- or to chuckle, in self-deprecation, at his own philosophical eloquence.
It's the bleakest kind of self-deprecation.
She recalls the moment with characteristic self-deprecation.
It's all about the voice, the wit, the gentle self-deprecation, the utter lack of sanctimony.
He makes no more attempts at humor and self-deprecation; instead, his tone becomes curt and his words more adversarial.
Be skeptical and your own worst critic, without indulging in fake self-deprecation.
