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adjective

Self-conscious adj.

Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth."

Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.

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Etymology of 'Self-conscious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Self-conscious" Quotes from Famous Books

... call? For an instant the fantastic idea of crying "Waiter!" or "Please send up my breakfast!" tugged at him hard, but fantasy had got him into much too much trouble as it was, he reflected savagely. It made you feel ridiculously self-conscious, standing behind bars like this and shouting into emptiness. Still he had to get out. ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... thwarted when she least expected it. For a few moments she was silent, revolving in her mind the wisdom of taking Victorine into her counsels, and confiding to her the motive she had for wishing her to be seen by Willan Blaycke. But she dreaded lest this might defeat her object by making the girl self-conscious. Jeanne was perplexed; and in her perplexity her face took on an expression as if she were grieved. Victorine, who was much dismayed by her aunt's seeming acquiescence in her refusal to serve the supper, ...

— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson

... not in years an old man, and had not as yet passed that time of life at which many a man is regarded by his children as the best of their playfellows. But he was weak in body, self-conscious, and jealous in spirit. He had the heart to lay out for himself a generous line of conduct, but not the purpose to stick to it steadily. His nephew had ever been a trouble to him, because he had expected from ...

— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope

... thin and lean. His shoulders were bowed a little with the strain of unceasing work and worry; in his more self-conscious moments, he shambled when he walked. Only moderately tall, clothed in ill-cut garments which he wore as uneasily as possible, his immature young figure was not one to call out much admiration on the score of its virility. Indeed, the one really virile thing ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... pleasure. "I'll go and put on my hat and boots now this minute," and within ten she was ready, and walking, basket in hand, and very self-conscious, down the hill to ...

— The Making of Mona • Mabel Quiller-Couch

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