self-abasing

It's certainly the kind of self-abasing flirtatiousness her husband finds seductive.

Clothes can be fun and emboldening, if not carried to self-abasing extremes.

Hers was a masochistic, self-abasing need, very different from the yearning of the boy who lay in the road.

His letter of resignation, they note, ended with a curt “Yours sincerely”, rather than the traditional self-abasing deference.

She is out to rehabilitate poor Tom from the bad rap he received in the 1960's as an impossibly unsexed and self-abasing figure.

Today’s iteration of CSR is less self-abasing and more constructive.

Freud saw the self-abasing "longing for the father," on which our attraction to dictators, among other authoritarians, is based, as connected to the religious drive.

Wikoff made a self-abasing gesture.

He's such a self-canceling, self-abasing character.

We do not see him uttering any of the self-abasing slogans that Mr. Bodard witnessed.

Mr. Arafat is vain yet self-abasing.

He turns a persona of self-abasing narcissism into art, and art into a stand-up comedy routine.

Fandom is so grossly unequal, so self-abasing.

As the clock ticks and the woman's desperate, stumbling answers become more self-abasing, the doll is lowered until it is just within her grasp.

In a press conference the day after the vote, Mr Obama’s response to the Democrats’ drubbing was more businesslike than self-abasing (see article).

More self-abasing honky-tonk thrills.

Today's self-abasing performance by Mr. Chun, who was aloof and unpopular as President, demonstrated how much has changed in the last year.

"These findings are important because they raise awareness about how women actually are being perceived when they engage in this self-abasing kind of talk," Corning says.

We did that very British dance: They were incredibly apologetic and self-abasing, I poo-pooed their apologies, saying it was entirely my fault.

At one point he describes himself as a cheaper version of Jason Statham, which is possibly the most self-abasing thing it’s possible for an actor to say.

Mr. Varla combines a wild-eyed, quixotic quality with a self-abasing humility that at least begins to capture the novel's conflicted narrative voice.

And its characters, especially the adorable, saucer-eyed Woody and the sweet, self-abasing Hai, are sentimentalized to the brink of saintliness.

Some of these desperadoes are so self-abasing that it makes VH1's "Surreal Life" look like "Ozzie and Harriet."

Think of her as the MTV-schooled version of Anna Nicole Smith: a self-abasing exhibitionist who would do absolutely anything to be noticed.

His embrace of the Dionysian ideal of the wild black man, uncowed by anyone or anything, did not jibe with his self-abasing devotion to Elijah Muhammad.