immodestly
Example Sentences
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When asked whether he has a favorite daytime temperature, Allen grinned immodestly and nodded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
“I’ve always predicted we were going to have one like this,” Norman said, perhaps immodestly, advising a reporter to review past lectures he had given on modern epidemics.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
She immodestly calls herself a master legislator, but there’s truth in the brag — she brings more legislative experience to her job than those immediate predecessors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Accurately, if immodestly, Ms. Franklin accepted the regal moniker “the Queen of Soul.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
The men on the backstretch assumed that anyone who made such a point of saying so little had to have something to hide, something shady or, perhaps, something immodestly valiant.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
