Sentence examples for sufficiently modest from inspiring English sources

The phrase "sufficiently modest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that meets a certain level of modesty without being excessive.
Example: "Her achievements are sufficiently modest, reflecting her humble nature despite her talents."
Alternatives: "adequately modest" or "reasonably modest."

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That portfolio is sufficiently modest that the Jets could cut him.

Occasionally, men have attacked local women for not wearing what they considered sufficiently modest clothing.

The commission ultimately found that the proposal would "not overwhelm the monumental size of this building" and was sufficiently modest.

The idea is for each side to make a move which is sufficiently modest not to inflame its own hardliners - and for that move to be instantly rewarded with a response from the other side.

On Wednesday Brandis said he and Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion had worked closely with the opposition and Recognition Council "to ensure we develop a proposal that is sufficiently meaningful, while at the same time sufficiently modest that it will command broad assent from the Australian people", of both conservative and progressive disposition.

A lot of the evaluation of her is, arguably, misogynist: she has been described as having a "mannish intellect", chastised for not being sufficiently modest about her literary success and made to feel, in her own words, that she is "a bitch for not having children".

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Hence, one can object to constructive empiricism by suggesting that it is not sufficiently epistemically modest: the doctrine that the aim of science is truth about what is observable should be replaced with the doctrine that the aim of science is truth about what's actually been observed.

Prevailing feelings of uncertainty seem to be additionally conducive to raising questions that aim at a deeper understanding of subject matter, but again, effect sizes are modest and findings cannot be generalised with a sufficiently low error probability.

Was he sufficiently humble?

Forth, our relatively small sample size may not sufficiently powerful to detect modest association.

Back home, after further surgery he recovered sufficiently to undertake a modest winter concerts season.

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