Modestly [adverb]
Definition of Modestly:
in a modest manner
Sentence/Example of Modestly:
"I am afraid you give me too much credit," said Robert, modestly.
"Perhaps you may have heard of me before," said he, modestly.
"But I play to win," he modestly met it, and again they laughed.
"I modestly but freely told him what I thought" of Paradise Lost!
Be careful not to sing too loud, or anything like that: just do it all modestly, as if you were used to it.
"But I've had nothing to do with it," Duthil modestly replied.
I had never met a man of such force and dignity who was so modestly affable.
“I hope he hasn't made a mistake in this instance, sir,” modestly.
After twenty years he said modestly that he 'could not make a judgment of it.'
"One ought to do a little of everything," answered the doctor, modestly.