Sentence example with the word 'modesty'

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 modesty.   [Please select]

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He had seemed amused by her modesty in the past, and yet it had obviously troubled him.   [Please select]

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Oh, dont fall back on over-modesty.   [Please select]

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We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty.   [Please select]

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Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of blackness.   [Please select]

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Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty.   [Please select]

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Modesty, an Overplus of, dangerous to Success, i, 307.   [Please select]

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Rosalba, Carriera, iii, 133; her Modesty, and Knowledge of Tempers, iii, 133.   [Please select]

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'Not at all,' said the parrot with conscious modesty.   [Please select]

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"Here you have modesty, brother, silence, bashfulness, a savage virtue."   [Please select]

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Modesty forbade him to name the exception.   [Please select]

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