modesty

But it appears there’s another reason for New Yorkers to like the basketball star known for his clutch play and modesty: He’s an astute analyst of comparative state tax rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

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

She quickly erases her smile and tries for some modesty.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

This is no time for idle vanities," he said; "it's no time to indulge unreal modesties; and you have none of either if it were.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.