modesty

And it is telling that country star Vince Gill delivers the number not just with enormous feeling, but modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Kayleigh, who owns a children's fashion brand, said she understood having an extra layer of protection in swimwear for modesty purposes, but said this particular padded design was "not OK" for an eight-year-old girl.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

His approach relies in part on structural modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

However, I’m not sure how modesty figures in my retelling the tale to you.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

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

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 Henry Harland

His conscience vexed him likewise, suggesting that his attitude had not been pure cousinly; and this shamed him, since he was still singularly unspotted from the world, noble modesties and decencies still paramount in him.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet