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self-consciously /ˌsɛlfˈkɒn(t)ʃəsli /adverb1In a manner suggesting undue awareness of oneself, one’s appearance, or one’s actions: she smiled self-consciously, trying not to feel foolish Janet self-consciously touched a hand to her cheek...- This part feels totally unscripted as the young cadets self-consciously address the cameras.
- He struggled self-consciously through his polite talk in French rather than let loose his usual machine-gun diatribes.
- "They're really strict at my school," she explained self-consciously.
2Deliberately and with full awareness: he self-consciously avoided taking responsibility each variation self-consciously strove to create something new...- Such a setting fits well with today's self-consciously international large-scale exhibitions.
- It was a literary movement that promoted a more self-consciously Scottish stance.
- The post-war years produced a mood of existential disgust, expressed through an idiom of self-consciously ugly realism.
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