modesty

It combines sharp-eyed intelligence with genuine modesty and leavens clever opportunism with the recognition that all men are created equal, even if some are less equal in their instincts for getting paid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

Kayleigh, who owns a children's fashion brand, said she understood having an extra layer of protection in swimwear for modesty purposes, but said this particular padded design was "not OK" for an eight-year-old girl.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

There are modesties in religion as in morals,—inner shrines to be defended at any and all costs.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

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 Sir Hall Caine

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 hope they cannot blame us, we have usd them With that respect our modesties allowd.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen