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[ UK /ɪmˈɒdəst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
  2. having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc
    brash immodest boasting

How To Use immodest In A Sentence

  • (Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
  • It was accounted an immodest thing for women to dishevel and unloose their hair publicly: The priest unlooseth the hairs of the women suspected of adultery, when she was to be tried by the bitter water, which was done for greater disgrace. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The reason for the present event, according to their explanation, is immodest behavior.
  • It seemed like an immodest thing to admit, but I thought, ‘Maybe he's right.’
  • Li Faa, from the Chinese angle, was a new woman, a feminist, who rode horseback astride, disported immodestly garbed at Waikiki on the surf-boards, and at more than one luau (feast) had been known to dance the hula with the worst and in excess of the worst, to the scandalous delight of all. THE TEARS OF AH KIM
  • The result of his immodesty has been a persistent hunger for offices that most people thought beyond his abilities. PrairiePundit
  • Her act describes her rejection by strings of men for being too talkative and immodest, for her unwillingness to commit to caring for a potential husband's ailing mother, and, worst of all, for being a comedian.
  • I think it's not being immodest to say that when we started the Institute for Justice in 1991, the term economic liberty was confined pretty much to libertarian academics," Mr. Mellor grins. Litigating for Liberty
  • Those same homemade tortellini reappear in a thick cream sauce, modestly portioned but immodestly rich.
  • Here's my own immodest architectural proposal: each borough needs an architectural ouroboros. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?
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