How to Use self-effacing in a Sentence

self-effacing

adjective

• Yet a more self-effacing brand of charisma emerges over the course of the collection.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Part of Benchakul’s feats have to do with his self-effacing earnestness.
  — Bill Addisonrestaurant Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• Bentley’s self-effacing jokes aside, the man knows his bluegrass.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2023
• On the witness stand, Carroll was brash, funny, self-effacing and shrewd.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• If ballet was all self-effacing torture, there would be no need to wrestle with it.
  — Madison Mainwaring, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• Our friend the Corolla Cross gets 30 miles per gallon, a benchmark its self-effacing sedan forebears couldn’t meet just a decade ago.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The self-effacing girl, all of 15, was horrified at the prospect, fainted and was gleefully slapped awake by her mother.
  — Michael Farquhar, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• These days, however, the people of Turku are proudly tooting their own horn — at least as much as the naturally self-effacing Finns are able to.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Burton’s own speech was self-effacing in her typical style.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• Part self-effacing memoir, part how-to for writing screenplays, and a window into how the levers of power worked in Hollywood, this book is a stone-cold classic.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• On the trail, this involves a delicate pairing of self-effacing anecdote and grand proclamation.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Here, Rowlands plays Sarah Lawson, a self-effacing love addict with no sense of self beyond her relation to others.
  — Emma Madden, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
• That memory still grounds Kimmel, who remains self-effacing even as he’s become the go-to host for Hollywood’s biggest night.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Mar. 2024
• The film moves between the 1930s sequences, conventionally shot, and the scenes with Hopkins as the self-effacing older Winton recalling those years.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• That humbleness and aw-shucks demeanor would always remain a part of him and anybody who ever met him would be blown away by that self-effacing aspect of his character.
  — Steve Rosen, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• There’s a zen, self-effacing quality to the way Lyman talks about it, combined with determination.
  — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• VanDerveer said in her typical self-effacing manner to start her first post-game interview Sunday.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The upshot is that the self-effacing champion of the vernacular owes his career to one of Mexico’s richest families.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
• Ohtani introduced himself in English, admitted his nerves, told a few self-effacing stories and awkward jokes through an interpreter and grinned for photographs.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Moreover, the soft-spoken, self-effacing nonagenarian is still at it, determined to capture the whimsy of nature on canvas, whatever the weather.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
• Strong emotions like pride and anger are generally frowned upon in favor of self-effacing, low-arousal emotions that forge connections with others and promote social harmony.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Pain banters a bit between songs, countering his bombshell performance with his usual self-effacing wisecracks.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 2 May 2024
• Where once drunkenness for the sake of drunkenness among women was framed as unladylike (and therefore to do so could be seen as a feminist statement), our attitudes to drinking have taken on a far more self-effacing, joking tone.
  — Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Outside the photo’s frame was the shrewd but self-effacing executive who orchestrated the summit: OpenAI’s vice president of global affairs.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• But that worldview — and business strategy — has increasingly put Disney and Mr. Bailey, a low-profile and self-effacing executive, in the middle of a very loud, very unpolite cultural fight.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• As much as Keith could exude arrogance, his pre-9/11 songwriting could also be self-effacing, casting him as an unreliable narrator who falls prey to his own pride and overconfidence.
  — Nadine Smith, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
• In person, Galitzine is sweet, self-effacing, reasonably confiding.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• Such inconsistencies are papered over with enthusiastic praise of what Mordaunt believes to be the eternally courageous, generous, resourceful, and self-effacing virtues of the British people.
  — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• This was the father A.J. remembered from before Trump’s presidency: witty, self-effacing, less interested in politics than a punchline.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Advertisement Many airline industry officials marveled at Mr. Wilding’s self-effacing and even-temper in the most difficult of circumstances.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025