Self-Effacing

“Self-effacing” (self ih-FAY-sing) – means not drawing attention to oneself.

Example (as used by Paul Berman in The New York Times): “[Norman Mailer's] Miami and the Siege of Chicago has just been republished with an admirably self-effacing preface by Frank Rich.”

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