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self-effacingly

self-effacingly adverb: the quality of carrying oneself in a humble manner.

Adverb

self-effacingly (comparative more self-effacingly, superlative most self-effacingly)

  1. The quality of carrying oneself in a humble manner.
    • John is difficult to distinguish sometimes because he carries himself so self-effacingly.

Forms of self-effacingly

comparativemore self-effacingly
superlativemost self-effacingly

Origin of self-effacingly

From self-effacing + -ly.

Questions about self-effacingly

What does self-effacingly mean?
Self-effacingly means the quality of carrying oneself in a humble manner.
What part of speech is self-effacingly?
Self-effacingly is an adverb.

Words near self-effacingly in the dictionary

  1. self-education
  2. self-educations
  3. self-effacement
  4. self-effacements
  5. self-effacing
  6. self-effacingly
  7. self-effacingness
  8. self-efficacies
  9. self-efficacy
  10. self-elect
  11. self-elected

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