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Sentence count:219+20Posted:2016-07-19Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bashfulhumbleplainquietshysimpleunpretentiousAntonym: arrogantimmodestSimilar words: modemodelmoderateclandestinedestructionmodifycodeerodeMeaning: ['mɑdɪst /'mɒ-]  adj. 1. marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself 2. not large but sufficient in size or amount 3. free from pomp or affectation 4. not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance 5. low or inferior in station or quality 6. humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness 7. limited in size or scope 8. free from ostentation or pretension. 
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151. They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
152. Even a modest aerial explosion like the fifteen-megaton Tunguska event would utterly devastate a modern city.
153. Participating organisations will receive modest sums to defray recruiting, training and reporting costs.
154. These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.
155. Still, despite these many disappointments, Nice does look like producing some modest steps forward in joint policy and decision-making.
156. Row after row of modest little brick houses are interspersed with delis and corner restaurants.
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157. After many years of modest living and involvement in tennis Higueras has found new fame.
158. This was disturbing news to the South, whose naval capabilities were modest.
159. Women who get relief and even enjoyment from crying can share this knowledge, given even modest encouragement.
160. Property owners offered concessions to attract new tenants and renters already in place received no, or modest, rent hikes.
161. His remedy, modest given his rhetoric, is that professors should be held more accountable for what they do.
162. North of Larchmont, the homes are more modest turn-of-the-century bungalows with two or three bedrooms.
163. The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.
164. Friedman applied it to the altogether more modest inflationary experience of the late 1960s.
165. It is as if by working in Weston Hall, Leapor came into contact with that family's modest literary tradition.
166. Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
167. Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now, schoolteachers' salaries were modest.
168. It wasn't obviously a particularly long discussion ... you are dealing with a company of a modest size ....
169. He has also made modest tax cuts of his own in New York City.
170. Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
171. I made some modest remarks about the social and political meanings encoded in works of art.
172. There is some evidence of modest influences, among many others, of the female labour market on family building patterns.
173. Democrats also intend to push for privacy initiatives and to propose modest gun control measures, party aides said.
174. Most villages had a sugarmill with a tall, slender chimney, or a modest watermill.
175. I always admired his wonderful modest way when running a course at Woolley Hall.
176. Their services were modest, and collective written agreements with employers remained exceptional.
177. Sell-out-tours, a gold album and as much fame as their modest little heads could handle.
178. Furthermore, many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society.
179. Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.
180. She has a modest expression and a pale sweet face.
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