Modesty is that shy feeling you get when someone brags about how great you are, or when you need to take off your shirt to go swimming and showing skin makes you squirm. If you blush, you’ve got some modesty.
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.
Noun
formality and propriety of manner
Noun
freedom from vanity or conceit
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.
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.
Modesty
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
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.
Usage Examples
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
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