Sentences for Modest, Sentences with Modest Meaning and Synonym Words

Sentences for Modest, Sentences with Modest Meaning and Synonym Words

modest

Meanings;

  • Unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one’s abilities or achievements.(adjective)
  • (of an amount, rate, or level) relatively moderate, limited, or small.(adjective)
  • Dressing or behaving so as to avoid impropriety or indecency, especially to avoid attracting sexual attention (typically used of a woman)(adjective)
Synonyms

self-effacing, self-deprecating, humble, unpretentious, unassuming, unpresuming, unostentatious, low-key, free from vanity, keeping one’s light under a bushel, moderate, fair, tolerable, passable, adequate, satisfactory, acceptable, unexceptional, small,

Example Sentences with modest
  • She is a very rich person but she has a very modest house.
  • The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
  • The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
  • When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
  • There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
  • Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
  • All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.