Usually means: With modesty, lacking excessive pride.
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  1. humbly: Merriam-Webster
  2. humbly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. humbly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Humbly, humbly: Wordnik
  5. humbly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. humbly: Wiktionary
  7. Humbly, humbly: Dictionary.com
  8. humbly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Humbly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Humbly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. humbly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. humbly: Rhymezone
  13. Humbly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. humbly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. humbly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. humbly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. humbly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. humbly: Vocabulary.com

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  1. humbly: Legal dictionary

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  1. humbly: Idioms

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▸ adverb:  In a humble manner.

Similar:
meekly, meanly, modestly, lowly, 'umbly, suppliantly, unhumbly, deferentially, respectfully, lowlily, more...

Opposite:
arrogantly, proudly, hubristically

Types:
meekly, submissively, timidly, obsequiously, more...

Phrases:
says humbly, opposite of humbly, humbly flattered, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     sage,     mauve, more...



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Similar:
meekly, meanly, modestly, lowly, 'umbly, suppliantly, unhumbly, deferentially, respectfully, lowlily, more...

Opposite:
arrogantly, proudly, hubristically

Types:
meekly, submissively, timidly, obsequiously, more...

Phrases:
says humbly, opposite of humbly, humbly flattered, more...

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     sage,     mauve, more...



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