- modesty; humility; being humble
noun (common) (futsuumeishi); noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
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I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter.
I feel it unfortunate that there is little of this kind of humble attitude amongst Japanese debaters.
"Tom, I heard you built your own house." "Er, yeah. It's only small though." "You're underselling yourself again."