Crossword-Solution: MODEST 6 letters, 122 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Modest	a.	Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
Modest	a.	Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.
Modest	a.	Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
MODEST	anagram	DOMETS

We have 122 clues for the answer “MODEST”

Clue	Answers
California city where "American Graffiti" is set	1 answer
Composer Moussorgsky	1 answer
Disinclined to brag	1 answer
Far from boastful	1 answer
Far from extravagant	1 answer
Far from glitzy	1 answer
Far from grand	1 answer
Far from prideful	1 answer
Far from showy	1 answer
Far from vain	1 answer
Free from ostentation	1 answer
Free from vanity.	1 answer
Hardly boastful	1 answer
Hardly extravagant	1 answer
Hardly given to exhibitionism	1 answer
Hardly grand	1 answer
How humblebraggers try to be	1 answer
Humble composer reinterpreted by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, familiarly (6)	1 answer
Like one playing down their accomplishments	1 answer
Like some accommodations	1 answer
Limited in amount	1 answer
Medium-priced	1 answer
Not apt to crow	1 answer
Not at all boastful	1 answer
Not at all vain	1 answer
Not boastful	1 answer
Not egotistical	1 answer
Not given to boasting	1 answer
Not given to bravado	1 answer
Not given to self-promotion	1 answer
Not liable to crow	1 answer
Not likely to brag	1 answer
Not overdone	1 answer
Not overwhelming	1 answer
Not pretentious	1 answer
Not prone to bragging	1 answer
Opposite of vain	1 answer
Reserved; retiring	1 answer
Retiring as a violet.	1 answer
Self-deprecating	1 answer
Swift's "A ___ Proposal . . . "	1 answer
Unlike a showboat	1 answer
Unlikely to boast	1 answer
Unlikely to self-promote	1 answer
Unostentatious	1 answer
Not vain	2 answers
Unlikely to brag	2 answers
Not ostentatious.	2 answers
Nothing to brag about	2 answers
Soft-spoken.	3 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REATE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble MODEST 6-letter words that start with M 6-letter words that end in T 6-letter words containing OD 6-letter words containing ST 6-letter words with M and O

Sentences with MODEST (5)

The sergeant’s vicious phases being the offspring of impulse, and his virtuous phases of cool meditation, the latter had a modest tendency to be oftener heard of than seen.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, the whole may be considered as the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A DECAPITATED SURVEYOR: and the sketch which I am now bringing to a close, if too autobiographical for a modest person to publish in his lifetime, will readily be excused in a gentleman who writes from beyond the grave.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

She tries to be modest when she complains to the postmaster that her New York paper is more than three days late.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

After an hour’s ride they reached the summit of a hill from whence they espied the City of the Winkies and noted the tall domes of the Emperor’s palace rising from the clusters of more modest dwellings.

The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

The PLANS stop there; then Circumstance comes in, quite unexpectedly, and turns these modest riots into a revolution.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with MODEST (3)

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the mos…

Andrew Carnegie

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The li…

C. S. Lewis The Problem of Pain

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 106 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).