modesty

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

They read midlife modesty, not stoke; they’re lacking in the joyous, playful audacity that Kasparian and her team infused into their groundbreaking designs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Looking at his own opus, he saw no reason to pretend modesty.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

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

Secondly," pursued the Vicar with firmness, "this War is so great a business that, to my mind, it just swallows up—effaces—all scruples and modesties and mock-modesties about precedence and the like.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self-criticism unknown to her heretofore.

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

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 Rex Ellingwood Beach