"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Had not the Greeks of more moderate means and modest tastes eventually beaten back the advancing Persians?
- Judging by the house in which he'd lived and the clothes he'd worn, he'd been a man of modest tastes.
- In his private life, Lord Brookeborough was a man of the simplest and most modest tastes and habits.
- He grew wealthy yet remained a man of modest tastes.
- Laing also has very modest tastes in food.
- She had modest tastes, and consistently chose the cheapest available, but these, she said, were the ones she wanted.
- She also has clients with more modest tastes.
- Though no longer young, she dressed with modest good taste.
- Which is not to say that Gray has acquired more modest tastes: 'We have a couple of Warhols,' she says casually.
- It no longer looked ostentatious, even for his modest tastes.
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