self-deprecatory

• “If he follows the Kevin Federline playbook, we can expect to see him playing himself in a self-deprecatory Super Bowl ad, guest starring as an impending corpse on a CBS cop show, and emerging as the surprisingly sane parent after Kate goes on a head-shaving bender.”

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• “And it's not uncommon for the cutter to carve self-deprecatory words into her skin: ugly, worthless, bad.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Harold Koplewicz: YouTube Cutters: What Parents Can Do About Kids Injuring Themselves on Camera

• “The crowd applauds politely but warmly, Art says thanks for the kind words, and puts the crowd at ease from the get-go with some self-deprecatory humor.”

  Fictionaut: With Arthur Rimbaud at the Chamber of Commerce Lunch

• “Apart from self-deprecatory remarks, will he now start to censor himself beforehand with his writers and, worse, when he interacts with his guests on the panel?”

  The Huffington Post: David Letterman Apology Redux: Shame on Dave for Buckling Under to Palin's Lies

• “The pianist's role is controlling and self-deprecatory, and Lortie was pervasive yet discreet, pulling the other players and us with him into Chausson's bleak world.”

  The Guardian: Lortie/Dumay/Quatuor Ebène

• “There were self-deprecatory references to losing his parliamentary seat after 13 years, allusions to the Cheeky Girls and corruption in parliament, a duff anecdote about his name – almost an anagram of "I like to be MP", he told us – and a small section about the Daily Mail, which had quoted the event's promoter, Robert Meakin, on the likelihood of Opik being bottled off the stage.”

  The Guardian: Lembit Opik

• “Now adopt some of that tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecatory humor on your own social media outposts.”

  The Huffington Post: Debbie Weil: Open Letter to BP: Three Tips on How to Use Social Media and the Web to Diffuse Your PR Crisis

• “He was a gifted illustrator, and seems to have known it, for he was modest and usually self-deprecatory.”

  Simon & Schuster: Empire of Dreams

• “With a self-deprecatory flourish that is as much of a personal signature by now as her dark-shaded eyes, Winkleman dismisses her job as child's play.”

  The Guardian: Claudia Winkleman: The quirky charm of TV's new film buff

• “This is further to complicate the fact that his usual self-deprecatory epithet for himself was “son of Man”, which appears to be an actual Aramaic saying, meaning “this fellow” or “yours truly”.”

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