The teacher gave a nervous, self-deprecating grin.

Josi, ever the coward, took the insult with a bobbing head and a self-deprecating grin.

"I guess it's better than sitting in spacedock, waiting for someone to ask me out on a date," she said with a self-deprecating grin.

He favored the group with a self-deprecating grin.

"Maybe you can help me, then, Miss." He flashed her a self-deprecating grin guaranteed to melt steel.

She shook her head again and gave him a self-deprecating grin.

Thorsen slowly lowered his hand with a self-deprecating grin of good humor.

Then, with a typical self-deprecating grin, the 29-year-old American promised little.

Especially, he thought with a self-deprecating grin, not to the woman you sleep with.

"I shall hope to be able to land more gracefully by then," F'lessan replied with a self-deprecating grin.