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Playfully Modest About 50 It Can Be A Bit Much

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99%4Exact Match!
verb

• supply or feed to surfeit

• cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

42%6About whom Churchill purportedly said "A modest man who has much to be modest about"
noun

• British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967)

29%12 Growing bit by bit
adjective satellite

• increasing by successive addition

• marked by acquiring or amassing

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