0 in a way that is not very large in size, amount or degree, or not expensive: --
1 in a way that shows you do not like to talk about or make obvious your own abilities and achievements: --
2 in a way that avoids showing too much of the body or attracting sexual interest: --
She was dressed modestly.
3 in a size or amount that is not large or with a value that is not great: --
4 with a tendency to not talk about or make obvious your own abilities and achievements: --
5 with behavior and clothes that are correct or socially acceptable and represent traditional values: --
She was modestly dressed in a full-length skirt.
First, a modestly incorporationistic r ule of recognition may not be all that modest.
The couple had no productive assets, and their house was modestly furnished.
Doubling the length of the a5-helix by repeating its sequence generated a mutant whose receptor coupling was only modestly reduced.
Apparently, their magma chambers were modestly heterogeneous but neither highly evolved nor systematically zoned from top to bottom.
The benefit in doing so, because we seek to maximize force anyway, is that this constraint helps to establish a more modestly sized design space.
Contrary to our initial bivariate analyses, opinion change does seem to depend, very modestly, on small group mechanisms.
It may also suggest that these results only modestly reflect the suffering of patients at later stages.
The chorus was dressed rather modestly while the dancers wore expensive and opulent costumes.