modest

On days when the surf is firing—or when I’m feeling more modest—it’s nice to have a reliable one-piece that I know will stay in place no matter how big the wave or wipeout.

And there are other stories DuVernay could have told and still met her (relatively) modest budget of $20 million.

How does it happen that citizens of modest means suffer as public sector unions gain?

A modest crowd moved East on 110th Street in New York City on Sunday evening.

Even its benign forms—the resurgence of modest dress norms in Jewish communities, for example—perpetuate this idea.

It was sexy, silly, and—in those relatively modest times—sensational.

It was not an exalted niche to fill in life, but at least she had learned to fill it to perfection, and her ambitions were modest.

It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.

Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.

She seemed to imply that I was a modest soldier, and if there is a way to flatter a man it is to call him modest.

Thank you, Griff, Jess heard herself saying to the younger Vandergriff, as he packed her modest order in the basket.