| 单词 | false modesty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalse modesty false modesty n. affected or pretended modesty concealing pride. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [noun] > affected modesty false modesty1710 mauvaise honte1721 1710 Steele Tatler No. 168. ⁋4 There is no Way of mending such false Modesty. 1899 E. H. Miles Lessons Lawn Tennis xi. 69 The man should have no false modesty..about a certain amount of poaching. 1923 ‘R. Crompton’ Innermost Room ii. i. 108 Miss Gill..considered that half the evil in the world arose from ignorance and ‘false modesty’. 1956 N. Pevsner Englishness of English Art vi. 151 He knew what he was doing, and there is no false modesty in what he writes about his achievement. 1985 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. b3/5 ‘I'm not going to let false modesty stand in the way,’ he told the foreign correspondents as he recited some of his accomplishments as Mayor. < as lemmas |
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