modesty

His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

He’s not a filmmaker given to false modesty, but how long can you bask in that kind of adoration?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

This was not just false modesty, it was a mature batter realising that his place in the larger scheme of things had been made so much easier by an ace teammate.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Mr. Benedict firmly insisted, however, that modesty had nothing to do with his opinion that the children had been the real heroes in this adventure.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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 Shakespeare, William

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 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'm so het up I can't set still, an' besides, mebbe we can get the story the way it really happened, from somebody who ain't bound an' gagged an' chloroformed by such unbecomin' modesties.

From The Spoilers by Beach, Rex Ellingwood