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Modestly

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a modest manner; with humility.

    "The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table."

  2. 2
    To a small degree.

    "These new shuttlelike craft might modestly reduce the cost of getting to low earth orbit."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with modesty; in a modest manner wordnet

Etymology

From modest + -ly.

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