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