SELF-DEPRECIATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Self-depreciation

... Self-depreciation in a nation is as great an error as over-complacency. Lack of full knowledge is the cause of much of the ...

— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... upon my recollection, as I call to mind his affectionate manner, his habitual good temper, and his amiable, almost childish, kindness of heart. While yet a boy, for example,—and this he told me himself, with a singular mixture of self-complacency and self-depreciation, as if more than half ashamed of his weakness,—while yet a boy, he was on a visit, where two different persons undertook to help him to the goodies, among which was a magnificent gooseberry-pie, one of his favorite dishes to the last. He ate until he could eat no more. A third ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various