Sentence examples for a modest funny from inspiring English sources

Most people knew him as a modest, funny, social fellow.

It's a modest start.

Morell has used his camera to find out what stories these books, "skinny, fat, tall, pompous, modest, funny, sad, proud, injured and radiant," had to tell.

From your family & all who adored you, we thank you for being kind, generous, patient, modest, funny, loving and a dapper gentle man.

He's modest, funny, unsparing on himself and ultimately generous of spirit to all involved.

And yet he lived a modest life.

Even his first entrance is funny: a modest skating walk in, though you know the modesty won't last.

It's earnest, occasionally sly, funny, childlike — a modest but irresistible heart-sweller.

Mr. Katz does supply some savagely funny dialogue and a modest pile of tasty theatrical in-jokes.

In an interview with New York Times Magazine's Mark Leibovich, he was even quite funny: when Leibovich asked him if it'll be a "modest performance," Romney replied, "It'll be a modest performance in more ways than one".

Here's a modest proposal.