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Self-effacing

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Shy, extremely humble and modest; making oneself seem unnoticeable.

    "Clark Kent's self-effacing behavior is to purposefully make people ignore him."

Adjective
  1. 1
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself wordnet

Etymology

From self- + effacing.

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