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  • 1. modesty
  • Rhymes with Modesty
  • Modesty in a sentence
  • Quotes about Modesty
  • 2. modesty
Table of Contents
  • 1. modesty
  • Rhymes with Modesty
  • Modesty in a sentence
  • Quotes about Modesty
  • 2. modesty
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. modesty

noun. ['ˈmɑːdəsti'] formality and propriety of manner.

Synonyms

  • correctitude
  • demureness
  • propriety
  • properness

Antonyms

  • impropriety
  • disreputability
  • unrespectability
  • expensiveness

Rhymes with Modesty

  • agresti
  • amnesty
  • angioplasty
  • anstey
  • battiste
  • battisti
  • beastie
  • benveniste
  • bloodthirsty
  • busti
  • busty
  • chalsty
  • christi
  • christie
  • christy
  • corpus-christi
  • crusty
  • decoste
  • dishonesty
  • dostie

Sentences with modesty


1. Noun, singular or mass
This is no time for modesty.

Quotes about modesty


1. Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
- Oliver Herford

2. I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
- Yves Saint Laurent

3. I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. modesty

noun. ['ˈmɑːdəsti'] freedom from vanity or conceit.

Synonyms

  • decency
  • prudery
  • modestness
  • modest
  • immodest
  • primness
  • Grundyism

Antonyms

  • immodesty
  • immodest
  • modest
  • indecent
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