What is "modicum"

Usage examples of "modicum".

Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.

She, who neither meant nor suspected any ill, was quite at her ease, and we should have enjoyed the joke, and everything would have gone on pleasantly, if her husband had possessed some modicum of manners and common sense, but he began to get into a perfect fury of jealousy.

He was merely crass of fibre and function - thoughtless, careless, and liquorish, as his easily avoidable accident proves, and without that modicum of imagination which holds the average citizen within certain limits fixed by taste.

He was merely crass of fibre and function--thoughtless, careless, and liquorish, as his easily avoidable accident proves, and without that modicum of imagination which holds the average citizen within certain limits fixed by taste.

His agents infiltrated the government of Moscow quite effectively using only routine puppetry and a modicum of bribes.

For after the six strokes of the tawse, he seated himself on the chair which she had to quit, then took her over his lap and finished her off with a voluptuous little handsmacking, after which she was bidden to sit upon him and grant him carnal joy, which she did with enthusiastic vigor, no small modicum of which may be said to be attributable to the feverish heat generated in her bare bottom.

Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthen cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body color, massicot, flake-white, etc.

Military-green privacy curtains offered a modicum of isolation from the rest of the noise and bustle in the medivac aircraft, exams in progress, wounded being treated.

Not until she had slammed down the long hallway and made it to the kitchen, where Milah and Marilyn were bustling over pots and pans at the sink, was Therese able to find a modicum of composure.

He had come back to astound his friends in New York with tales of his sexual prowess among the starlets, and his modicum of success in the cinema.

Nadar was done, Clover Lee was left with a thin sheaf of envelopes, but was assured that their senders were at least all males, heterosexual, unmarried, possessed of unsmirched credentials and at least a modicum of unattached wealth.

A few terraces of dilapidated houses, some farms in Radnorshire, a modicum of shares in run-down industries.

Over the centuries, prudent captains had landed goats on most of the islets with a modicum of vegetation and pools to collect rainwater.

Save for a modicum of camp mud along soles and heels, his jackboots were as shiny as his polished cuirass and helmet, his rich clothing clean and whole, and he made no attempt to mask his distaste at the filthy, rusty, tatterdemalion aspects of the three other officers.

Loveday snapped the retractors together viciously as Staff came back, tore off her gown and mask and cap, pinned on the small starched and frilled headdress the sisters of the Royal City were privileged to wear, and with a modicum of words as she handed over the keys, went off duty.