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modestly

adv

Etymology

From modest + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a modest manner

    In a modest manner; with humility.

    • The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.
    • An hour later, Trump and Starmer were gathered in the modestly named Donald J Trump Ballroom for the press conference proper.

  2. To a small degree.

    • These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit.
    • One of several factors to his success this election was modestly boosting his support among men, a shift concentrated among younger voters, according to AP VoteCast, survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

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