Noun
A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHumor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. Chuck Jones
One must perhaps qualify this statement and say that seemingly opposite tendencies each contain some modicum of the other. I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. Edward Hopper
I suspect that a major goal of the reform campaign is to make the work of a teacher so degrading and insulting that the dignified and the truly educated teachers will simply leave while they still retain a modicum of self-respect. Chris Hedges
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. Fred Thompson
Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life. Deborah Copaken