immodest

Example Sentences

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The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The original book was published in 1995 and it has — I'm being immodest in saying — but weathered well.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024

Van Gaal will never be burdened by modesty about his achievements in the game but he has a lot to be immodest about.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022

Thankfully, it went for six seasons, and I don’t think it’s immodest of me to say that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2022

Two days later, Singleton sat down in a windowless room in Brigham City, his immodest investigator’s surroundings, put one of the discs into the computer, and discovered what looked like nonsense.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel