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单词 self-deprecatingly
释义

self-deprecating

adjective

self-dep·​re·​cat·​ing ˌself-ˈde-pri-ˌkā-tiŋ How to pronounce self-deprecating (audio)
: tending or serving to disparage or undervalue oneself
self-deprecating humor
He is far too self-deprecating … to assume the persona of a celebrity. Eve MacSweeney
self-deprecatingly adverb
… his own informal cluster of American dissident scholars, which self-deprecatingly calls itself the "consolation club" … Franklin Foer

Word History

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined above

self-deprecatingly

adverb

as in bashfully

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • bashfully
  • shyly
  • diffidently
  • timorously
  • timidly
  • politely
  • fearfully
  • courteously
  • sheepishly
  • civilly
  • obsequiously
  • humbly
  • servilely
  • deferentially
  • subserviently
  • meekly
  • respectfully
  • mousily
  • abjectly
  • suppliantly
  • submissively
  • lowly
  • modestly
  • meanly
  • hat in hand

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • proudly
  • scornfully
  • contemptuously
  • boldly
  • arrogantly
  • loftily
  • pompously
  • pretentiously
  • haughtily
  • superciliously
  • brazenly
  • brashly
  • audaciously
  • huffily
  • pridefully
  • presumptuously
  • swaggeringly
  • imperiously
  • fearlessly
  • disdainfully
  • saucily
  • self-importantly
  • recklessly
  • impertinently
  • disrespectfully
  • rashly
  • discourteously
  • rudely
  • ungraciously
  • impudently
  • impolitely
  • uppishly
  • uncivilly
  • bitchily
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