Reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
1 The self - effacing Rodgers has tended to let his music do the talking.
2 A generous self - effacing regard had supplanted the madness of his earlier passion.
3 The college may suffer, though other more self - effacing donors are stepping forward.
4 He went on talking in his self - effacing , deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
5 Hazel Fredericks, in her quiet and self - effacing manner, had aspirations, Milly suspected.
6 Always self - effacing and silent, she was now more silent and self - effacing still.
7 Haplessly, she started to say something self - effacing , but Cara cut her off.
8 All the comedians here are like this - talented, multi-dextrous and self - effacing .
9 When Tom Langely was alive Mary was a self - effacing , oddly silent woman.
10 Surprising, then, how self - effacing Harbach turns out to be in the flesh.
11 If the Grid Pictures had appeared self - effacing , Piene's work soon became more evanescent.
12 Only a working girl, plain in appearance and in dress, diffident and self - effacing .
13 He is nice to everybody, easily pleased, self - effacing and well liked.
14 Coe, meanwhile, was all along studying Abram, learning the methods of self - effacing persuasion.
15 The average Northern Irish woman is more likely to be self - effacing .
16 Naturally, in best Grant tradition, he's ready with a self - effacing quip.
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