Words similar to humility

Example sentences for: humility

How can you use “humility” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

So when people ask whether I am Peter Maass, the writer, I should feel good, I should feel triumphant, I should feel like a master of the literary universe receiving the adulation he so rightly deserves, and I should reply in a voice of elegant humility, "Yes, I am."
Child care has become an inescapable public issue, and social scientists themselves have been expressing a new humility about child-care research.
Sometimes Skeat's tactic when confronted, either with evidence of error--which occurred very rarely indeed--or with a complaint about his overbearing lack of tolerance of those who knew less than he or had committed the unpardonable sin of failing to have both his books and the latest fascicle of the OED at hand, was to go all soft with humility.
Rubin's reticence, as well as his praise of underlings and colleagues, has earned him an enormous, though not fully deserved, reputation for humility.
World Cup Chairwoman Donna de Varona lauds the American players' "humility."