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modest
adjective as in shy
Weak matches
bashful, blushing, chaste, coy, demure, diffident, discreet, lowly, meek, nice, proper, reserved, resigned, reticent, retiring, seemly, self-conscious, self-effacing, sheepish, silent, temperate, timid, unassertive, unassured, unboastful, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious, withdrawing
adjective as in limited, ordinary
Strongest matches
Weak matches
average, cheap, discreet, dry, economical, fair, inelaborate, middling, natural, plain, unadorned, unaffected, unembellished, unembroidered, unexceptional, unexcessive, unextravagant, unextreme, unobtrusive, unornamented, unostentatious, unpretentious, unradical, unstudied
Example Sentences
They say the need is by far the greatest among these modest-income families and the economic boost will be much larger if the money goes to lower-income families because they are likely to spend it right away.
You would have made more money by using that money to buy a modest house, as the median American home has appreciated more than that over that timeframe.
Not for the first time, bold climate plans require modest financial risks.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona don’t seem inclined to support even modest filibuster reform, at least right now.
On days when the surf is firing—or when I’m feeling more modest—it’s nice to have a reliable one-piece that I know will stay in place no matter how big the wave or wipeout.
And there are other stories DuVernay could have told and still met her (relatively) modest budget of $20 million.
How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?
A modest crowd moved East on 110th Street in New York City on Sunday evening.
It was sexy, silly, and—in those relatively modest times—sensational.
I knew the Clintons had arrived at the White House with modest means.
It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.
It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.
Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.
She seemed to imply that I was a modest soldier, and if there is a way to flatter a man it is to call him modest.
Thank you, Griff, Jess heard herself saying to the younger Vandergriff, as he packed her modest order in the basket.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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