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.