| 词汇 | false-modesty |
| 释义 | false modesty noun[ U ] uk /ˌfɒls ˈmɒd.ɪ.sti/ us /ˌfɑːls ˈmɑː.dɪ.sti/ behaviour in which a person pretends to have a low opinion of their own abilities or achievements: 假谦虚 He shows great pride in his work and has no false modesty about his success.他对自己的作品非常自豪，对所获的成功也不故作谦虚。 Faking & pretending affect air guitar assume believe bluff someone into something/doing something changeling cry faker false falsifiable falsify feign pass something off as something phoney phony-baloney play-act play-acting professed purport quack Examples of false modestyfalse modesty This was not falsemodesty, nor any modesty at all, but neither did he consider her simply his superior. Even his most critical admirers would not frequently accuse him of falsemodesty, undue diffidence, or lack of confidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many times under the cloak of falsemodesty we are afraid to touch the matters with which they dealt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say "do my best" not out of falsemodesty, but because it is a grey area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not ask it of any broadcasters, because they suffer from no falsemodesty at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Rather than simply saying that she has saved money, will she explain, without falsemodesty, what added value she has brought to her position? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But it does not require any falsemodesty for us to say that we are far below him in the appreciation of the use of words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not falsemodesty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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