"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Finally, hire actors who while far from being big stars have modest reputations.
- "Their crime," he states blandly, "was that they were 'stinking scientific authorities' who enjoyed a modest reputation on a provincial scale."
- Gradually, his products gained a modest reputation for quality and he began to sell all he could make.
- Throughout her years as an editor, Athill had enjoyed a modest reputation herself as a writer, publishing three volumes of memoirs.
- For a brief period he enjoyed a modest reputation as a minor Indian poet.
- The appointment, held until 1670, associated him with an energetic department and Duncombe here acquired a modest reputation for administrative skills.
- The work might make him a modest reputation.
- He attempted to elevate a school with a modest academic reputation to an Ivy League level.
- Hughes seems to have preferred Forster because he was a man of modest reputation whom he thought he could control.
- By now, McFarlane had a modest reputation as a detail man on foreign policy.
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