modesty

Van Dyk chronicles these lives with a modesty that runs counter to the script’s potentially melodramatic setup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

But it appears there’s another reason for New Yorkers to like the basketball star known for his clutch play and modesty: He’s an astute analyst of comparative state tax rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

His approach relies in part on structural modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Well, sir,” he said, with a suspicious sort of modesty, “I think I can; but I don’t know as ’ow you’d be satisfied with the theory.”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

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 William Shakespeare

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

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

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

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