humble-hearted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Meek; humble; unassuming.
Example Sentences
- "Old hags many of them were, dried and brown and wrinkled, kerchiefed and short-petticoated, with thick wool stockings on their bony shanks, stumping through the glittering thoroughfares, looking neither to the right nor the left, bent on duty, envying nothing, humble-hearted, remote;"
- "Or perhaps 'I am overawed by your undistinguished, humble-spirited, humble-minded, humble-hearted, humble-looking humility, which humbly shines . . .'?""
- "Too slick for what Phil liked to call Andy's "humble-hearted" style. "We'll make a suit-and-tie man out of you yet," the senator had said once, half in jest."