Modestly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MODESTLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a modest manner.
ADVERB:
• MODEST, unassuming
• in an unassuming manner; without vanity or arrogance
• to a relatively moderate or small degree
• in a manner that is not elaborate or luxurious
• so as to avoid impropriety or indecency
• with modesty; in a modest manner

Words related to MODESTLY

modest9

Words that contain MODESTLY

immodestly18 overmodestly21

How to use MODESTLY in a sentence

• She protested to the policeman, and he too modestly seconded her.
• This was a large square room furnished as modestly as the sitting-room of a provincial gentleman would be likely to be.
• Croisilles modestly took a place there, and in less than an hour his two hundred louis were gone.
• Allan, who was on the Examining Board, watched her face as she modestly yet firmly pressed it.
• She walked modestly to her seat, bowed her head as usual, and the services proceeded.
• The last was a cheap envelope, neatly sealed and addressed modestly.
• The barbarians modestly replied that they had no intention of settling in Noricum, and if the Romans had rights over the country, they would carry their arms elsewhere.
• He made much of the doings of Dave and Roy, but modestly suppressed his own.
• A modestly furnished and scrupulously neat apartment was revealed.
• It might have meant that he believed Isabel, or it might have meant that he modestly withdrew his own opinion into the background.
• To retain for my family only what will provide modestly for them all.
• I think you are a boy, to be ruined again every time you love me, you blush so modestly.
• I can make enough to provide modestly and comfortably for my wife and children, which after all is the main thing for my happiness.
• Calhoun, and the majority of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, modestly extends the denunciation to Mr.
• Stebbins stood modestly but resolutely in the pulpit so sanctified by the memory of King.
• Brande in his lectures, and so quietly, skilfully, and modestly was his work done, that Mr.
• The others mounted, too, Harry and Dalton as usual taking their places modestly in the rear.
• Will you not think me the first of your friends when, contrary to your expectation, you see the Bacchae acting modestly? PEN.
• This distinction the Governor modestly wished to decline, but was not permitted.
• The only departments that kept modestly in the background were those upon which the execution of the move fell.
• He was asked to give the words belonging to the music, and at last he modestly said he would repeat them, as he could not see to write.
• There were six of them, very modestly dressed, only their arms and feet being bare.
• In discussing the American temperament it is better to start modestly.
• I tried the experiment of modestly taking the blame on myself.
• It is rather to perpetuate the remembrance of what has been, or to qualify more truthfully and modestly the expression, to save it for a moment longer from oblivion.
• However, Bertie Adams was quite unconscious of all these possibilities, and thought of himself modestly, rather cheaply.

Similar words containing MODEST without suffix ly

modest9 modesty13 immodest13 modester11 immodesty17 modestest12 modesties12 immodestly18 overmodest16 immodester15 immodesties16 immodestest16 overmodesty20 overmodestly21 overmodesties19

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