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Synonyms for modicum

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Words related to modicum

a small or moderate or token amount

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were left th"I did, however, anticipate a modicum of commonsense to be added to the briefing.
Speaking to Gulf News, many expatriates said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's election banter has overshadowed what has traditionally been a run-up framed with a modicum of respect for the office of president.
The .38 Super is very amenable to reloading, and, with even a modicum of care, brass will last nearly forever.
Sadly my initial hopes that he meant she was about to display a modicum of self-respect for once were brutally shattered when she turned up on Let's Dance For Comic Relief as Cher.
Unless Kevan Jones accepts a modicum of humility, apologises for his complicity and culpability for his involvement at the time, he should not issue comment on matters that are not within his competence.
It's high time the Welsh FA exercised a modicum of common sense when arranging the venues and KO times of football.
Whereas the Bedouin who surveys a hundred miles of empty sand will crave company and can psychologically afford to offer each stranger a warm welcome, his urban contemporaries, at heart no less well meaning or generous, must in order to preserve a modicum of balance live without any acknowledgement of the millions of human beings eating sleeping arguing, copulating, and dying only inches away.
It only takes a modicum of research to turn up descriptions of the band's androgynous lead singer and its "glamazon backup singers," and at least one account of "fireworks and midget dancers" (of which we can find no other reference, and so must treat as apocryphal).
The Lambourn trainer prunes his string right back at this time of year, so any runner with a modicum of potential is worth a second look.
It often seemed to me that the person last on the list of priorities whenever advertisements were being considered was the customer--especially if they were assumed to have even a modicum of intelligence.
Without a modicum of corporal punishment being permitted, there will never be any control over unruly children.
The 8-13 favourite had three lengths to make up on Modicum at the last but jockey Tom Doyle wore him down to score by half a length.
Says BalletMet artistic director Gerard Charles, "People love mysteries because they can second-guess how events have transpired." To that end, the ballet will incorporate a modicum of audience interaction to help solve the mystery of Whodunit?
My Christmas wish this year is that people stop typing the word libertarian without first doing a modicum of research on what libertarianism means and how it relates specifically to the issue about which they're writing, or maybe even ask a handful of folks who at least call themselves libertarian.