Meaning of in all modesty | Babel Free

Definitions

Prepended to praise of oneself or one's own doings, as a form of modesty.

idiomatic

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Examples

“But at any rate, and on the principle that of two hypotheses, each in itself adequate, we should choose the simpler, I suggest in all modesty that we shall do better with our own than with Coleridge's, which has the further disadvantage of being scarcely amenable to positive evidence.”

“It seems to me, in all modesty, that you are well paired.”

“I think I may say, in all modesty, that I have done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation.”

“I speak in all modesty as I say this, but I discovered at that moment that I have a fierce will to live.”

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