His goal has been modest: to have as decent a life as medical knowledge and the limits of his body will allow.
Remain modest to the core.
Their children — a son, a weapons engineer, and a daughter, a journalist — grew up to be modest, decent people.
(A joke of the era: "What would happen, if Khrushchev were assassinated instead of Kennedy?…Like hell would Onassis marry Nina Petrovna"). Their children a son, a weapons engineer, and a daughter, a journalist grew up to be modest, decent people.
Further, only about half the time I spend in the shop ends up being billable (I have no employees; every little chore falls to me), so it usually works out closer to $20 per hour — a modest but decent wage.
"The goal that we are shooting for is a neighborhood that is modest but decent, where residents are proud to be from that area".
At a time when people's confidence in political parties has been sorely tested, what kind of message does it send out that those running our country think that the savings of someone who led a modest, decent life, devoted to public service, should be spent on shoring up their own political futures?
He is always wise, always modest, always decent.
By all accounts she is a modest and decent person.
The capital markets looking ahead will provide modest but decent returns.
Chor Bizarre's location doesn't hurt: it's in a modest but decent hotel (the Broadway) on the fringe of Old Delhi.
