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modest violet

noun as in shrinking violet

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The modest violet may exhale its fragrance through an overgrowth of noxious weeds—and humanity bears out the simile.

I once knew a charming young lady, called by her friends "the modest Violet."

So you turned little Cry-baby into a lion of bravery and Sir Boastful into a modest violet!

Let us be like the modest violet, who hides her beauty, rather than be boastful and foolish, as the stag was.

You needn't hang your head, Mollums, like a modest violet; it's a solid fact.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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