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

There’s a flower garden so immodestly fragrant it seems to exceed all botanical limits, crossing from horticultural into Haribo olfactory territory.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 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