modesty

We grandchildren always considered our Mama Chela a doña — a grand Mexican dame who never wore pants and frequently covered her hair with a veil out of modesty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Longstanding societal norms of thrift and modesty, and lingering memories of wartime scarcity and inflation, have helped make saving an obsession and moral imperative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

I was not sure what he meant by modesty.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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 Sir Hall Caine

There are modesties in religion as in morals,—inner shrines to be defended at any and all costs.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

It seems that my 'doings' are 'indecent and unnecessary,' and my sermons are 'a violation of all the sanctities, all the modesties of existence.'

From The Christian A Story by Sir Hall Caine

We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray