Example Sentences

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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

He mocks selfie and Instagram culture with the language of their own self-mockery.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

“Of course,” he says, a moment later, with a laugh full of self-mockery.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black