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modestly adverb

1. cu modestie; sfios, cu pudicitate; fără pretenţii / ifose.

2. cuviincios, decent.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mr. Spenlow smiled as I became modestly warm on the subject, and then argued this question with me as he had argued the other.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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