And many times it is just a way of hiding our pride with the mask of false modesty. |
There is no false modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. |
Both reek of false modesty, but deen does appear jumpy and genuinely anxious at times. |
He is intelligent, engaging and nimbly treads the line between humility and false modesty. |
A stranger to false modesty and phony self-deprecation, her ego seemed both colossal and, in its artlessness, endearing. |
So languages tolerate one another, come close without jealousy, borrow from each other and lend to each other with no false modesty. |