modest

On-Yomi: ソン — Kun-Yomi: したが.う、へりくだ.る、ゆず.る

Koohii stories:

1) [adrianbarritt] 4-2-2008(66): My parents aren't at all modest about their grandchildren, at every opportunity they take them on the road showing them off to their friends!

2) [sgrant] 11-7-2009(36): He wasn't at all modest when telling us about his grandchildren - "They're all on the road to success" he said.

3) [Meconium] 17-1-2010(24): Swift wrote in "A Modest Proposal" that Ireland should solve its economic problems by collecting the nation's grandchildren from off the streets and eating them.

4) [astridtops] 17-1-2007(8): When grandparents take their grandchildren out on the road, they want them to be modest little children.

5) [n1williams] 30-11-2009(4): To instill a MODEST mindset in his GRANDCHILD, the grandpa sent him down the ROAD to find work instead of just giving him money.