modesty

“Jumping into that concert in Sydney, and having an earpiece and seeing all this, was a little bit crazy,” says Nasa with well-mannered modesty, “but we somehow got through it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Eschewing any pretense of modesty, he says the Kennedy decision was a dead letter.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Children grow at different rates and for some eight-year-olds, having some more modesty in swimwear is absolutely appropriate," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

His approach relies in part on structural modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Flies,” he remembered, “On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand, may seize And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

You were sent for; and     there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties     have not craft enough to colour.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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 Sir Hall Caine

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

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

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray