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Meanings of self-effacing in английском

Reluctant to draw attention to yourself.

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Usage of self-effacing in английском
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The self-effacing Rodgers has tended to let his music do the talking.
BBC
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A generous self-effacing regard had supplanted the madness of his earlier passion.
Dope
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The college may suffer, though other more self-effacing donors are stepping forward.
Reuters
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He went on talking in his self-effacing, deprecatory, but very earnest fashion.
The Gray Dawn
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Hazel Fredericks, in her quiet and self-effacing manner, had aspirations, Milly suspected.
One Woman's Life
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Always self-effacing and silent, she was now more silent and self-effacing still.
Up the Hill and Over
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Haplessly, she started to say something self-effacing, but Cara cut her off.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
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All the comedians here are like this - talented, multi-dextrous and self-effacing.
The Irish Times
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When Tom Langely was alive Mary was a self-effacing, oddly silent woman.
Green Valley
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Surprising, then, how self-effacing Harbach turns out to be in the flesh.
The Guardian
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If the Grid Pictures had appeared self-effacing, Piene's work soon became more evanescent.
The Guardian
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Only a working girl, plain in appearance and in dress, diffident and self-effacing.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
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He is nice to everybody, easily pleased, self-effacing and well liked.
The new yorker
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Coe, meanwhile, was all along studying Abram, learning the methods of self-effacing persuasion.
The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
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The average Northern Irish woman is more likely to be self-effacing.
The Irish Times
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Naturally, in best Grant tradition, he's ready with a self-effacing quip.
News.com.au