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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