humble brag
Veiled self-promotion
A humble brag disguises boasting as self-deprecation or complaint: So exhausted from my third trip to Paris this year, My publisher keeps pressuring me to finish the sequel.
The speaker feigns modesty while ensuring the impressive detail gets noticed.
The maneuver is transparent enough that calling something a humble brag is itself a criticism.
- boastSpeak with excessive pride
- showoffOne who flaunts abilities
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- fakeNot the real thing
- subtleNot immediately obvious
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- Bragginggloat, show off, flex, swagger, strut
- Neologismsselfie, blog, vlog, podcast, hashtag
- self-promotionboasting, self-praise, plugging, showing off, touting
- showing offboasting, show off, boasted, flaunting, flaunt
- showoffsshowoff, show-off, boaster, showboat, grandstander
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