self-conscious

Definition

  • adjective: uncomfortably nervous about or embarrassed by what other people think about you
  • adjective: conscious of one's own acts or states as belonging to or originating in oneself
  • often + 'about'

Examples

  • She's 'self-conscious' whenever she has to give a speech.

  • a 'self-conscious' attempt to win people's sympathy

  • He's very 'self-conscious about' his appearance.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) rural. A farm book would just be white noise. What about this? Uh, a tribe of asparagus children, But they're self-conscious about the way their pee smells. Apparently, all we have is vegetables. I have no time, so, you know, If you've got a story here... (..)
    2003 Elf