We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of self-depreciation in English
Usage of self-depreciation in English
1
So speaks Mrs. Davis, in noble self-depreciation of herself and her class.
2
She was touched to the heart by his self-depreciation and profound respect.
3
Sometimes, again, the dramatic sense takes the form of an exaggerated self-depreciation.
4
The man was broken-hearted; he suffered tortures of loneliness, disappointment, doubt, self-depreciation.
5
His attitude towards them was not one of humble self-depreciation any more.
6
He nodded, and she ran on with a rippling laugh of self-depreciation.
7
Do we not use more emphatic words than these in our self-depreciation?
8
To know people's real estimate of themselves, study their language of self-depreciation.
9
Before I was twelve I suffered from terrible self-depreciation; I do so still.
10
In time they were succeeded by an affectation of contrite apology and self-depreciation.
11
A curious feeling of shame, of self-depreciation crept into his heart.
12
Hannah Macaulay's description of her bodily condition erred on the side of self-depreciation.
13
These fits of depression and self-depreciation amount to being tragic.
14
But this was only part of his constant half-humorous self-depreciation.
15
At the same time Christian humility is not self-depreciation.
16
Yet it was a pleasant smile, indicative of a disposition toward courtesy, if not self-depreciation.
Self-depreciation through the time