self-mockery
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"This is a job that is more difficult than it looks. Claudia, despite her self-mockery and nerves, put in a respectable first shift," she wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
But now a cadre of bureaucrats in Paris’s gilded Quai d’Orsay are ditching their carefully worded communiqués in favor of a stream of real-time X posts that mix self-mockery and sarcasm…in English.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
But his wannabe-breezy comedy has always struck me as awfully strenuous, and the Marvel enterprise seems to encourage his worst instincts; too often he mistakes sloppiness for irreverence and self-satisfaction for self-mockery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
O’Brien is at heart a showman, feeding off the crowd, constantly riffing, deflecting, trying voices, insult humor, self-mockery, letting a raging insecurity drive his humor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2021
When they had it cornered in a shop doorway, she ran at him and he leaped aside with a scream that was not all self-mockery.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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