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immodest /ɪˈmɒdɪst /adjectiveLacking humility or decorousness: his immodest personality...- I know there are many who will disagree, who will say these bare-bellied women are shameless and immodest, but I cannot agree.
- This was a reaction to the growing diffusion of wigs which attracted attention, and were considered immodest or brazen in both communities.
- They were dressed no differently from youngsters on the town during Spring break in Daytona Beach: casual slovenliness, shorts, short-shorts, t-shirts, highly immodest tops on the girls.
Synonyms indecorous, improper, indecent, indelicate, indiscreet, immoral; forward, bold, brazen, impudent, unblushing, unchaste, unvirtuous, shameless, loose, wanton informal fresh, cheeky, naughty, saucy Derivativesimmodestly /ɪˈmɒdɪstli / adverb ...- So for that reader - or even, he says hopefully, those readers (yes, I am immodestly speaking in the plural) - I wish to pass on the following tantalising and incredibly personal detail.
- Out on the moors, nature was immodestly ripe, and I was riding the owner's own magnificent animal - Rex, a chestnut part-Arab with an insatiable curiosity in everyone and everything.
- Among other things, she dresses immodestly, drinks alcohol, and has a close relationship with a man who isn't her husband.
immodesty /ɪˈmɒdɪsti / noun ...- ‘Being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men,’ he tells Harry with uncharacteristic immodesty, ‘my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.’
- Does it prohibit drinking of alcohol, dancing, prostitution, beauty contests and fashion shows, female immodesty in any form, exhibition of films, even television?
- Their philistine immodesty did not stop there, though.
OriginLate 16th century: from French immodeste or Latin immodestus, from in- 'not' + modestus (see modest). Rhymesmodest |