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UK
/ɪmˈɒdəst/
]
ADJECTIVE
- offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
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having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc
brash immodest boasting
How To Use immodest In A Sentence
- But this upsurge in immodesty applies to child rearing as well. Letters to the Editor
- They thought it was immodest for both sexes to swim together.
- Then their women are so immodest; striding about in ball-rooms with very little on, and embracing strange men in a whirligig which they call dancing, but very unlike the dignified movements which our male dancers exhibit in the Confucian temple. The Civilization of China
- Adriana asked, bracing herself for more of his charmingly unrestrained immodesty.
- At the same time without being immodest, I would say we are the original reformers and nobody can take that away from us.
- The standard condemnation of people who use ‘I’ too much is that they're too egocentric or immodest.
- Being alone and immodestly dressed is a deadly combination. Protecting Our Daughters
- But, such prices are hard to resist, and apparently this has started the downward trend in the way we dress: "cheap, convenient, ugly, immodest and unfeminine" is easier than sewing your own appropriate clothing. Painting Inspired Dress # 1
- ‘Paul has already made them see the unfitness of the unveiled head for woman, its immodesty and unwomanliness, and now, with that impression on their minds, he asks if it is proper to pray to God in such unseemly fashion’.
- This was a reaction to the growing diffusion of wigs which attracted attention, and were considered immodest or brazen in both communities.