Definition of modesty

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Modesty (n.) Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.

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Pudicity :: Pudicity (n.) Modesty; chastity.
Honesty :: Honesty (a.) Chastity; modesty.
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt..
Obscene :: Obscene (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures..
Shameless :: Shameless (a.) Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
Demurely :: Demurely (adv.) In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty..
Modesty :: Modesty (n.) Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
Impudicity :: Impudicity (n.) Immodesty.
Prude :: Prude (a.) A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech..
Modesty :: Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit..
Shame :: Shame (n.) A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal..
Maidenliness :: Maidenliness (n.) The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
Bold-faced :: Bold-faced (a.) Somewhat impudent; lacking modesty; as, a bold-faced woman..
Decent :: Decent (a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
Impudent :: Impudent (a.) Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow..
Suggest :: Suggest (v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty..
Diffidence :: Diffidence (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
Blush :: Blush (v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face..
Downcast :: Downcast (a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt..
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