self-revealing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of self-revealing
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Viewers rated the Facebook users on average as having lower self-esteem and being more self-revealing, for example, than the users rated themselves.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Via Zoom sessions, he encourages them to be analytical and self-revealing in their writing.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2022
The result is an unusually self-revealing show, especially when you factor in the 16 de Kooning catalogs vandalized into hybrid collaborations; the fictive, mad-bibliophile library; and a catalog to die for.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018
Moore never directly mentions that moment of dark prescience in “The Terms of My Surrender,” which despite its overly self-revealing title obeys the Broadway dictum to send the audience home feeling good.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2017
He saw again what he had seen in the village when Captain Hahn had struck his memorable, self-revealing blow.
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
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