The phrase "a modestly well" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of adverb and adjective, as "well" should not be used in this context. An example could be: "She performed modestly well in the competition," but it should be rephrased for clarity.
Alternatives: "somewhat well" or "fairly well."
A powerful, mendacious sloganBorn a modestly well-off villager, Mao lived like an emperor, carried on litters by peasants, surrounded by concubines and placated by everyone.
After a pause, he asked, modestly, "Well, what can I say," eliciting laughter from the students.
Hyundai, which offers a range of affordable vehicles, sells modestly well to the young.
The scrounging and ambitious socialite Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson) finds she can bring herself neither to marry only for money nor to marry the man who loves her, an only modestly well-off lawyer named Lawrence Selden Eric Stoltzz); her desire to live up to Selden's sense of her integrity helps strengthen her backbone just enough to undo her.
One is a third installment of "High School Reunion," which has performed modestly well for WB, and the other is "Big Man on Campus," a competition among college fraternity men who will be judged by young women and vice versa.
The book has sold modestly well in Southeast Asia, where Eswaran is developing a reputation as a spiritual guru for the CEO set.
I never saw beyond it doing modestly well, while hoping to get a couple of good reviews.
A closer look at his numbers indicates he has performed modestly well in his other three starts.
The Aubrey-Maturin books did modestly well in Britain, and in 1990 Starling Lawrence, an editor at W. W. Norton, persuaded his publisher to reissue the series in paperback and buy rights for future installments.
Flynn's first two books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places, were straightforward mysteries that did modestly well, so that, she says, everyone assumed this one "would build a little on that, and that would be great".
