immodest
Example Sentences
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“On a personal level, to say, ‘I want, I want, I want,’ people may feel that, but we are taught that good manners is to suppress such immodest cravings.”
The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.
Its brief to the state Justices argues that Mr. Kaul’s “immodest proposal” is “wrong for at least ten reasons.”
The original book was published in 1995 and it has — I'm being immodest in saying — but weathered well.
From Salon
“The perception of me has definitely changed,” he says, which is the closest he can bring himself to being immodest.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
