What is the meaning of MODEST. Phrases containing MODEST
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Rashful; modest.
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Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
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Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush.
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Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace; indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.
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The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.
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To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
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The quality or state of being verecund; modesty.
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Easily confused or put out of countenance; diffident; bashful; modest.
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Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace.
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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.
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Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.
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Not obtrusive; not presuming; modest.
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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.
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Modest; shamefaced.
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Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless.
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The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.
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A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
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Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.
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In a modest manner.
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Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.
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