| 释义 |
self-deˈpreciatory, a.
[self- 1 e.]
Tending to depreciate or disparage oneself.
1862‘Geo. Eliot’ Romola vi, in Cornh. Mag. Aug. 153 Romola did not make this self-depreciatory statement in a tone of anxious humility. 1966N. Nicolson in H. Nicolson Diaries & Lett. (1966) 27 That self-depreciatory humour that he reserved for us. 1981G. Winokur Depression xii. 113 These changes are coloured by the patient's guilt and self-depreciatory symptoms. |
