not excessive
Example Sentences
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However, Clearsprings' profits are not excessive for the size of its contract and the sector it is working in.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
It’s not excessive — it’s not like 80 and 90 — but some people still want to know what they’re going to get.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
It was the perfect brunch dish for me; filling but not excessive, and bursting with garlic and herbs, with richness coming from bacon and the poached egg.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
“Coffee intake, if not excessive, should be safe for bone,” he says, “and if you still have concerns, add milk!”
From Scientific American ● Jan. 4, 2023
Modest, mod′est, adj. restrained by a sense of propriety: not forward: decent: chaste: pure and delicate, as thoughts or language: not excessive or extreme: moderate.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
