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modesty
aloofness, constraint, discreetness, frostiness, inaccessibility, middlingness, qualm, retirement, self-immolation, standoffishness, undemonstrativeness
Definition
n.
freedom from vanity or conceit
Last update: September 28, 2015
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He was often cheated owing to his
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He had seemed amused by her
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Oh, dont fall back on over-
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We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also
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Her
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Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless
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Modesty, an Overplus of, dangerous to Success, i, 307.
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Rosalba, Carriera, iii, 133; her Modesty, and Knowledge of Tempers, iii, 133.
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'Not at all,' said the parrot with conscious
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"Here you have
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, brother, silence, bashfulness, a savage virtue."
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Modesty forbade him to name the exception.
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