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Modestly vs Carefully - What's the difference?

modestly | carefully |

As adverbs the difference between modestly and carefully

is that modestly is in a modest manner while carefully is (lb) sorrowfully.

modestly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a modest manner.
  • * The man bowed modestly and left the dinner table.

    • carefully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (lb) Sorrowfully.
  • *, III.8:
  • *:there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne.
  • With care; attentively, circumspectly.
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  • *:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ΒΆ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.