WordNet
adv. in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'" [syn: modestly] [ant: immodestly]
Usage examples of "with modesty".
Constantine listened with patience, and spoke with modesty: and while he influenced the debates, he humbly professed that he was the minister, not the judge, of the successors of the apostles, who had been established as priests and as gods upon earth.
There we saw no shame-faced mimes, no actress over-burdened with modesty.
It would have been difficult -- I say it with modesty -- for anyone to have chosen a better spot for effecting the transfer.
And in many great churches, chapels, and palaces he let it be known, with modesty, that such-and-such a splendid piece had regained its beauty because he had worked on it.
Do not soar, do not look up, do not transform, but follow downward-looking Science with modesty thy guide.
Aunt Lucinda, with modesty, could point out that she was descended from two of the three, and in a way she was happy that she was not rekted to Captain Hoxworth, for of course all of his offspring were part Hawaiian.