Modesty is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MODESTY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being modest
• the quality of being relatively moderate, limited, or small in amount, rate, or level
• behaviour, manner, or appearance intended to avoid impropriety or indecency
• quality or condition of being modest
• The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one\'s own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one\'s own merit.
• Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
• freedom from vanity or conceit
• formality and propriety of manner
• the quality or state of being unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities

Words related to MODESTY

modesties12 pudicity16

Words that contain MODESTY

immodesty17 overmodesty20

How to use MODESTY in a sentence

• Jarvis, though a man of much modesty, was one of great decision, and he determined to have the laugh on his side.
• To open the budget would be a breach of good breeding, and would shock the Imperial modesty.
• Lovelace also highly praised, he is the last person whose judgment I would take upon real modesty.
• Lamb excels in familiar conversation almost as much as in writing, when his modesty does not overpower his self-possession.
• And he had the heroic sincerity which belongs to such modesty.
• His modesty, sensibility, large views, and want of political ambition and partisan spirit prevented interest, as they would have precluded success in party management.
• But let him with modesty determine what sort of discoveries may render our ancient authorities questionable.
• The exact particulars of this fearful conflict have not reached us, but we may, without offence, we trust, to the modesty of Mr.
• Here also we feel his modesty, and here once more we are balked of details as to his life.
• The princess looks lovingly at the handsome youth, but cannot speak for modesty.
• He supplied all my wants with the thoughtfulness of a father, and with all the greater liberality because my modesty left it to him always to think of me.
• Neither her tongue nor her courage knew the curb of modesty, and she was the first to reduce her craft to a set of wise and imperious rules.
• A sincere response to appreciation and praise, made by those endowed with real ability, usually comes cloaked in a genuine modesty.
• These dreams, however, he had the grace and modesty to keep wholly to himself.
• And her contemporaries, both men and women, read it with delight, because they had parted company with blushes and modesty.
• Corporal York showed the extreme modesty which is characteristic of very brave men, in not mentioning his exploit when he reached his own battalion headquarters.
• With singular modesty of judgment, they thought invention and discovery ill-sounding names in religion.
• It is not the will of the divine Spouse for whom they endure anguish that they should suffer in their modesty.
• During the course of the journey they preached to the people, and all were impressed with their modesty, patience, and devotion.
• In some vague way he inferred from all this that Jessie was trying to escape from an undesirable marriage, but was saying these things out of modesty.
• With the usual conventional expressions of modesty he admitted the fact.
• I wish to preserve a note of a dear old friend of my own, whose talents, perhaps I might say whose genius, was only shrouded by his modesty.
• Her deportment was every thing that modesty and propriety could suggest.
• A modest behavior is charming, but too much modesty is prudery.
• CHASTITY, perfect modesty, in word, deed, and even thought, is so essential, that, without it, no female is fit to be a wife.

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