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Meanings of modesty in English
Mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
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Usage of modesty in English
1
Feel free to avoid any sense of modesty, but keep it realistic.
2
At the interview's end West declared, with characteristic modesty: I understand culture.
3
It elevates manly attributes; in fact, it constitutes the modesty of man.
4
Sure, it's often suggested I don't have any modesty to begin with.
5
False modesty aside, I've got to say it was better than good.
6
It was insolence and not insolence; it was modesty and not modesty.
7
All modesty aside, she had been very, very good at her job.
8
Her mind is rich in all the graces of ingenuousness and modesty.
9
Men forgot their sex; women threw off all the restraints of modesty.
10
I didn't really see that one coming, he says with typical modesty.
11
Perhaps they assumed basic modesty would render him less likely to flee.
12
But when I got outside the drawing-room door my natural modesty revolted.
13
The cold sweat of terror forsook her, and modesty took the alarm.
14
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children.
15
I am blushing now; and my modesty has had much to bear.
16
His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self.
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Modesty through the time
Modesty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common