modesty

It combines sharp-eyed intelligence with genuine modesty and leavens clever opportunism with the recognition that all men are created equal, even if some are less equal in their instincts for getting paid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Eschewing any pretense of modesty, he says the Kennedy decision was a dead letter.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Women now refuse to turn the clock back even though strict rules on "modesty" and severe punishments are still the law of this land.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

The ease and modesty present in “Marc by Sofia” sometimes seem perplexing.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

He told the old man with the politeness and modesty fitting to young men and students.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is no time for idle vanities," he said; "it's no time to indulge unreal modesties; and you have none of either if it were.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

She is kind to him, but hypocritical, affecting scruples, modesties, pieties, a heart and conscience, attitudinising, blushing false blushes, weeping crocodile tears; she is cruel to us, but sincere.

From Grey Roses by Harland, Henry

I hope they cannot blame us, we have usd them With that respect our modesties allowd.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

You were sent for; and     there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties     have not craft enough to colour.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William