self-mockery
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- noun
- /sɛlfˈmɑːkəri/
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autocrítica
- "It's a really great scotch," David would say with the perfect pitch of self-mockery, "not just good," when he explained one of his Friday latenesses to Mimi, who hadn't asked.
Examples
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Only a ghost, she thought with wry self-mockery.
Fiction book (2002) -
Self-mockery was a moral fable, a moral truth, that fueled peculiar underground sympathies between us, though at another level we scorned or hated each other.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her face was blank, but there was painful self-mockery in her voice.
Fiction book (1996) -
Or was it mockery, self-mockery?
Fiction book (1997) -
Nothing is relished more than self-mockery.
Academic text (1995) -
"He smiled, but it was an expression full of self-mockery and pain.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was familiar with his mockery of others and his self-mockery.
Fiction book (1997) -
At least Obama has transitioned (nearly seamlessly) into inadvertent self-mockery.
Blog text (4) -
He smiled, and it was a wonderful smile, crooked and boyish and lit with a gentle self-mockery.
Fiction book (1999) -
During the interview, the comedian used self-mockery to lighten the mood and show that he didn't take himself too seriously.
Synonyms
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7.2
A quiet, slightly mocking kind of humor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-mockery is made of self ('yourself') and mock ('to make fun of'). So it literally means making fun of yourself, which is a gentle, humorous way of showing you do not take yourself too seriously.