Crossword-Solution: MODESTLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Modestly | adv. | In a modest manner. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “MODESTLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| How "Aw, shucks" is usually said | 1 answer |
| In a self-effacing way | 1 answer |
| In an unassuming way | 1 answer |
| In an unshowy way | 1 answer |
| In humble fashion | 1 answer |
| On a low key. | 1 answer |
| Unassumingly | 1 answer |
| Without ostentation. | 1 answer |
| Without pretension | 1 answer |
| Without showiness | 1 answer |
| In humble manner | 1 answer |
| With humility | 2 answers |
| In a humble way | 2 answers |
| Without arrogance | 2 answers |
| abjectly | 5 answers |
| ATTRACTING ATTENTION BY SHOWINESS OR BRIGHT COLORS | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MODESTLY (5)
The Ass carefully divided the spoil into three equal shares and modestly requested the two others to make the first choice.
The hermit, after a long grace, which had once been Latin, but of which original language few traces remained, excepting here and there the long rolling termination of some word or phrase, set example to his guest, by modestly putting into a very large mouth, furnished with teeth which might have ranked with those of a boar both in sharpness and whiteness, some three or four dried pease, a miserable grist as it seemed for so large and able a mill.
Carton? Can I not recall you--forgive me again!--to a better course? Can I in no way repay your confidence? I know this is a confidence,” she modestly said, after a little hesitation, and in earnest tears, “I know you would say this to no one else.
Though far from strong, and troubled occasionally with those fainting-fits already mentioned, she went about her work modestly and uncomplainingly, doing it carefully, and doing it well.
Knightley’s returning your affection?” “Yes,” replied Harriet modestly, but not fearfully—“I must say that I have.” Emma’s eyes were instantly withdrawn; and she sat silently meditating, in a fixed attitude, for a few minutes.
Quotes with MODESTLY (3)
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim — so modestly and so humbly — to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar tas…
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1965–2014).