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What is false modesty?

What is false modesty? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Behavior that is intended to seem humble but comes across as fake and unflattering.
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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.

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