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Miss Mae
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Synonym of "humble"
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July 01, 2014, 01:19:14 PM »
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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Joe Carillo
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Re: Synonym of "humble"
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July 02, 2014, 09:45:21 AM »
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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Miss Mae
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Re: Synonym of "humble"
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July 02, 2014, 01:16:52 PM »
Oh.
Thank you.
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