Jose Carillo's English Forum
English Grammar and Usage Problems => Badly Written, Badly Spoken => Topic started by: Miss Mae on July 01, 2014, 01:19:14 PM
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Is it appropriate to describe a donation as "humble"?
Others are making more humble, but equally important, donations to the UAE Suqia campaign, mostly by text messages.
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Yes, it's appropriate to use the adjective "humble" in that sentence in the sense of "unpretentious" or "not costly or luxurious." That word is a very close synonym of the adjective "modest" when used in that same sense.
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Oh.
Thank you.