false modestynoun [ 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:
He shows great pride in his work and has no false modesty about his success.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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