But in his typically self-deprecating way, he laughed at that description and said: "The guy's wrong.

"Oh, my maiden name was Mountsier," the woman said in a self-deprecating way.

She laughed slightly at that in a self-deprecating way.

"She does not care for me, it seems," he says, in his usual self-deprecating way.

He shrugged in his self-deprecating way, and left the room.

Fletcher smiled in a self-deprecating way when he revealed his own approach.

He shrugged one shoulder in the old self-deprecating way.

He chuckled in a self-deprecating way that was touching.

Much of what he says, when he says anything, comes out in the same self-deprecating way.

I clung to Hugo's arm and tried to smile in a charming but self-deprecating way.