Billy shrugged his shoulders in modest dubiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 13] Reference
The SA Communist Party welcomed what it described as modest measures, and proposed that the school-feeding scheme be revived. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A modest salary. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A modest apartment. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Pentagon officials say they are contemplating now what they call a modest increase in those forces. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2006] Reference
He said it was a surprise to win a prestigious award for what he described as a modest genre of writing. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
He receives what he calls modest compensation from state Fish and Wildlife every year for the pasture grass eaten by elk. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
But it is also starting to see what it calls a modest increase in borrowers who haven't paid their bills for more than 90 days. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
The most fortunate families live in modest plastic tents. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Quigley: Nine Months After the Quake -- A Million Haitians Slowly Dying] Reference
I have lived in modest homes that we fixed up and then sold. From Wordnik.com. [Contentment At Home] Reference
I must admit that my own clothing while modest is not always beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine] Reference
The center is considering a burial plot and what it calls a modest shrine. From Wordnik.com. [Updates: LeBron Poetry Contest; Paul The Octopus] Reference
The observers of this law are those we call modest, and the breakers arrogant men. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference
His word tells women to "adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness.". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Dress Painting] Reference
Grant was very far from being a modest man, as the word modest is generally understood. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
Furthermore, many are not expensive, and may be especially reasonable in modest grades. From Wordnik.com. [Coin Rarities & Related Topics: 1793 Half Cents, Chain Cents, Wreath Cents, 1808 Quarter Eagles — one-year type coins in general : Coin Collecting News] Reference
During training, we lived with host families in modest but not impoverished neighborhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Luce: Exhaust the Limits: New Book Speaks to One Man's Successful Mission to Help Humanity] Reference
I am religious, but modesty for me has always been because I know women look better in modest clothes. From Wordnik.com. ["The Pink Rose" by Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)] Reference
The EUR/USD broke its downtrend and made a short-term modest uptrend; thus, signaling a possible bottom. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
This is indeed shown by the derivation of the word modest from modus, a measure or standard of behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
Asking Republicans to keep expectations "fairly modest" is not the most motivational message to the base. From Wordnik.com. [Cornyn: 'We Need To Keep Expectations... Fairly Modest' About Health Care Repeal (VIDEO)] Reference
At the same time the scale of our English landscape, though it may be equable and modest, is not fortuitous. From Wordnik.com. [English Landscape and Personality] Reference
Though his output may have been modest from a quantitative standpoint, few have ever questioned its quality. From Wordnik.com. [The few, the proud, the work of Juan Rulfo (1917–1986)] Reference
But I was born in modest circumstances as the sixth of eight children to two working parents in Lachine, Quebec. From Wordnik.com. [Fulfilling Our Dreams: Ontario's Path to Growth and Prosperity] Reference
Blip. fm takes in modest revenue from referrals to online music stores and ticket agencies, as well as advertising. From Wordnik.com. [Social MTV: Blip.fm Adds YouTube Videos] Reference
"Her eyes were large and sparkling, her expression modest, her mouth small, her lips vermilion, and her figure perfect.". From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference
Eventually, I managed to gain modest NIH support for my scrapie studies but this was not without considerable difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Stanley B. Prusiner - Autobiography] Reference
Perhaps by the time another, generation comes around a certain modest number of these things will have begun to be corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Where Ghetto Schools Fail] Reference
Patients can only gain modest insight from the Internet, but let's face facts the Internet is "he said - she said, not science.". From Wordnik.com. [Gary Liberson, PhD: Doctors Silent on Risks] Reference
Though analysts called the gain modest, it was less than the 3 percent jumps over the summer and was the smallest increase since May. From Wordnik.com. [Retail sales numbers, jobless claims show uneven recovery] Reference
Second, having by now published a couple of stories in modest venues, I'd been contacted by two agents who wondered if I had a novel. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Julia Glass, author of Three Junes] Reference
Let's assume being modest is inherently illogical, since modesty is an empathetic reaction to your perception of others 'emotional states. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
The increase was "modest" -- only 152 new members. From Wordnik.com. [Religious History most prominent among members of American Historical Association] Reference
Workers 'wage gains - characterized as "modest" - aren't raising inflation worries. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
McGuinty's executive council -- Almeida described the shuffle as "modest" -- but Environment. From Wordnik.com. [CTV BritishColumbiaHome] Reference
"modest;" and the word modest has since been amiably confounded by his biographers with "pure.". From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Declaration of James, might be called modest and cautious. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
The modest are the most easily intoxicated when they sip at vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
Activity elsewhere was described as modest or pointed to positive developments. From Wordnik.com. [statesman.com - Highschool] Reference
Comfortable but modest cottages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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