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And it's not uncommon for the cutter to carve self-deprecatory words into her skin: ugly, worthless, bad.

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: YouTube Cutters: What Parents Can Do About Kids Injuring Themselves on Camera Dr. Harold Koplewicz 2011

The crowd applauds politely but warmly, Art says thanks for the kind words, and puts the crowd at ease from the get-go with some self-deprecatory humor.

With Arthur Rimbaud at the Chamber of Commerce Lunch Con Chapman 2011

If he follows the Kevin Federline playbook, we can expect to see him playing himself in a self-deprecatory Super Bowl ad, guest starring as an impending corpse on a CBS cop show, and emerging as the surprisingly sane parent after Kate goes on a head-shaving bender.

'Kate Plus Eight': What will Jon Gosselin do now? | EW.com 2009

And it's not uncommon for the cutter to carve self-deprecatory words into her skin: ugly, worthless, bad.

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: YouTube Cutters: What Parents Can Do About Kids Injuring Themselves on Camera Dr. Harold Koplewicz 2011

Now adopt some of that tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecatory humor on your own social media outposts.

Debbie Weil: Open Letter to BP: Three Tips on How to Use Social Media and the Web to Diffuse Your PR Crisis Debbie Weil 2010

Apart from self-deprecatory remarks, will he now start to censor himself beforehand with his writers and, worse, when he interacts with his guests on the panel?

Michael Russnow: David Letterman Apology Redux: Shame on Dave for Buckling Under to Palin's Lies 2010

Apart from self-deprecatory remarks, will he now start to censor himself beforehand with his writers and, worse, when he interacts with his guests on the panel?

David Letterman Apology Redux: Shame on Dave for Buckling Under to Palin's Lies 2010

He was a gifted illustrator, and seems to have known it, for he was modest and usually self-deprecatory.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

The pianist's role is controlling and self-deprecatory, and Lortie was pervasive yet discreet, pulling the other players and us with him into Chausson's bleak world.

Lortie/Dumay/Quatuor Ebène 2010

There were self-deprecatory references to losing his parliamentary seat after 13 years, allusions to the Cheeky Girls and corruption in parliament, a duff anecdote about his name – almost an anagram of "I like to be MP", he told us – and a small section about the Daily Mail, which had quoted the event's promoter, Robert Meakin, on the likelihood of Opik being bottled off the stage.

Lembit Opik Paul Fleckney 2010