Sentence examples for falsely modest from inspiring English sources

Maybe they were being falsely modest.

Italians, certainly, will be hoping he was being falsely modest.

Nor did they seem to be falsely modest.

Not that there's anything falsely modest about the softly spoken Sir Terry.

And Mr. Nwaeze isn't falsely modest about his skills: "I can cook anything," he said.

Of course, you're not actually being falsely modest; you really don't think you can do it.

And I'm not being falsely modest when I say I'm not the world's most intelligent man.

She stops, perhaps worrying about coming across as falsely modest – something she "really hates".

Marcelo Gomes and Stella Abrera were equally comic as the falsely modest lovers, Lysander and Hermia.

Otherwise he's disarmingly normal, self-effacing but not falsely modest, and – mostly – open.

Mr. Biden did not elaborate and it was not clear whether he was being genuinely (or falsely) modest.