Antonym: arrogance. Similar words: modest, modestly, immodest, lodestone, mode, model, modern, remodel. Meaning: ['mɑdɪstɪ /'mɒs-] n. 1. freedom from vanity or conceit 2. formality and propriety of manner.
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91) He does this with a modesty and a delight in enquiry which has lost none of its adventure in thirty years.
92) His honesty and modesty endeared him to many people who valued his wise advice.
93) Last year, I had what in all due modesty I shall call a brilliant idea.
94) There's nothing wrong with modesty.
95) With science,(http://sentencedict.com/modesty.html) modesty or immodesty is not the issue.
96) To take introspection with modesty.
97) Mr. Lin sighed and smiled in wry modesty.
98) His disinclination for modesty is well known.
99) His modesty and generosity predispose people to like him.
100) Modesty is a big issue in Nigeria these days.
101) Modesty is her middle name.
102) Without modesty beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
103) In the black-and-white photo, Bruni is stark-naked and covering her modesty with her hands.
104) "Few 'letters home' of successful men or women display the graces of modesty and self-forgetfulness" (H. G. Wells).
105) Wherever valour true is found , true modesty will there abound . ( W . S . Gilbert ).
106) Yvonne Taylor, left, and Lucy Groom proved quite a dish when they covered their modesty in bits of lettuce and campaigned on the streets of Kazakhstan's capital, Almaty.
107) Thus no-action should not interpret as stagnancy. It should be meant no arming, no hostility, modesty, humbleness, amiableness to people.
108) Immodest words admit but this defense, That want of modesty is want of sense.
109) The talk with him further gave evidence to his simplicity, modesty amiability, ingenuity, and wide interests.
110) Our friends'standard of living impressed me, but their modesty floored me.
111) For me, this kind of print has to be worn with modesty, please no total look, it's just too much!
112) His modesty [ air of joviality ] was all put on.
113) A man of practice hence possesses naturally of various abilities, such as art, understanding of religious rite, prophecy, heaven eye and ear, apprehension of world rules, modesty and courtesy.
114) He plays the character with tremendous concentration combined with a pleasing modesty.
115) He did not want anything crossed out ( by our modesty ).
116) But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.
117) Wherever true valor is found , true modesty will there abound.
118) Immodest words admit of no defense, for want of modesty is want of sense.
119) It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius, and with modesty in Cosette.
120) Modern man wears clothing for three purposes: for protection, for decoration, and for modesty.
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