self-deprecating
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- self-deprecatingly adverb
- self-deprecation noun
Example Sentences
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Still intact, though, were her sharp wit and self-deprecating sense of humor.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
When Washington first met Matthews, she was self-deprecating.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
It did look like something I’d write to someone I’m close to, complete with a lack of punctuation and a self-deprecating LOL.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
Perhaps his particular qualities as a playwright reflected his background: part Mitteleuropean intellectual, part self-deprecating, public-school educated, cricket-loving Englishman.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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