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modestly

adverb as in within reasonable limits

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Jos Hermens, the agent who represents both Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele, told me that Kipchoge got a big boost from the original Vaporflys, while Bekele got a much more modest one.

On the housing production side, we want to make sure that some reasonable and modest improvements on how we are allowing housing production to actually take place are afforded.

Even a modest deployment in the next few months could protect millions of people and save tens of thousands.

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The bank’s bad-loan write-offs, though still modest, are creeping higher.

The researchers contend that such a strategy can make a huge dent in the infection rate while causing a far more modest drop in the total number of visits to those venues.

Williamson “talks fluently and modestly about his art,” Barkham wrote.

The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil.

All of that, and the fact that hardly anyone within the state knows who the hell Bell is, and Booker is only polling modestly.

If I am dressed “modestly,” then they can perhaps generate a modicum of understanding.

Previously, no one thought twice about telling girls to dress modestly in order be taken seriously or to be protected.

We modestly reminded her that we always did go, excepting of course on this particular Sunday.

You thought I smiled modestly and said, "Oh yes, he's my brother, my young brother; isn't he wonderful?"

More modestly, it is a kind of table of contents, of a unique type; a table of living contents!

She asked her question very modestly, but her cheeks were flushed, and she was evidently indignant.

"All can not be officers, and I was content to serve my country in the most humble capacity," modestly replied Mark.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to modestly, such as: humbly, plainly, quietly, simply, bashfully, and chastely.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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