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Self-conscious

adjective

Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts. Synonym: self-aware. "Self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"

Excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior. "Wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it"

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"Self-conscious" Quotes from Famous Books

... "barkeep" of the White Elephant Saloon and a Minneapolis shoe-drummer. In the centre of the floor the new plasterer and his wife moved through the figures of the French minuet with the stiff-kneed grace of two self-conscious giraffes, while Mrs. Percy Parrott, a long-limbed lady with a big, white, Hereford-like face, capered with "Tinhorn Frank," the oily, dark, craftily observant proprietor of the "Walla Walla Restaurant and Saloon." Mr. Abe ...

— The Lady Doc • Caroline Lockhart

... a turn-up nose and was somewhat self-conscious concerning it, bought a new pug dog, and petted it so fondly as to excite the jealousy of ...

— Jokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers • Anonymous

... Insurrectos; but so much the better,—they knew how to fight. They said that they were not afraid of Moros—though I think that they would rather have encountered tigers—and when finally dressed, a few days later, they appeared upon the streets self-conscious, objects of adoration in the eyes of all ...

— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert

... be able to talk,' fell from Alma, her look no longer that of ingenuous sweetness, but of virtue just a trifle self-conscious. And her husband, though he read this meaning in the change, was yet pleased by ...

— The Whirlpool • George Gissing

... had glanced at Annesley's face while talking of the Malindore diamond to Lady Cartwright. It had been on the edge of his mind that, if she looked self-conscious, it would be a point against her and her husband. Also he had determined to make his daring attempt at discovery before she had time to get rid of the diamond if she were hiding it. Now, however, in the light of her shining innocence, he had almost forgotten that he had suspected ...

— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

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