Brash immodest boasting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We don't want the girls coming in immodest clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
Not that Thumbeline could be called immodest, unless a baby can be so described, or an animal. From Wordnik.com. [Lore of Proserpine] Reference
There was a good deal of splashing and horse-play, but nothing you could call immodest, though my fair skin came in for an amount of attention I had to get used to. From Wordnik.com. [The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales] Reference
The party outlawed pornography and cracked down on "immodest" clothing, enforcing a fashion for sexless quilted suits. From Wordnik.com. [Joining The Party] Reference
One Muslim woman living nearby said they had criticised her for not wearing a full veil, telling her she was 'immodest'. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that dares to go out in the world wearing "immodest" clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
He insisted that he had not meant to refer to all "immodest" television programmes, merely to those that broadcast black magic and sorcery. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
Mr Wolf admitted kicking a student's table from under her feet because she refused to take them down from the desk when her dress and raised legs were "immodest". From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Everything even yet looks so immodest on those vast stretches. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
My proposition would be immodest if it concealed any afterthought. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It would be considered very immodest for a girl to discuss such matters. From Wordnik.com. [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference
I think it is immodest to wear things when they get out of style like that!. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
The custom of wearing long hair was deemed immodest, impious and abominable. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Will and Fish are neck and neck for the most immodest style in American prose. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Nunberg: 'The I's Don't Have It'] Reference
The sixth Commandment does forbid the reading of bad and immodest books and newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)] Reference
Here's my own immodest architectural proposal: each borough needs an architectural ouroboros. From Wordnik.com. [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?] Reference
As to the stories themselves, they treat of adventures, in great part amorous and often immodest. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
You, you unbelieving dog, think that because she is "strong-minded" she must be repulsive and immodest. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
No obscene pictures or immodest images were to be seen -- all was unexceptionable in point of propriety. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
We shall have occasion to note that they contained coarse and immodest fables and atrocious or vile rites. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
There was no immodest lingering on the beach; this privilege was reserved for the advanced civilization of a later day. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
No lady who understands the fine-art of dress would ever have her gown cut too low: it is ugly, besides being immodest. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
"My dear, you never heard her breathe a really unbecoming word or saw her do an immodest thing?" said my mother interrogatively. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Here for about a month a professional evangelist had harangued the curious crowds in immoderate, and oftentimes immodest language. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
She felt with appalling clearness that which before she had uncertainly experienced, the immodest character of that mother's beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Without sounding immodest, I think we have succeeded in elevating India's aspirations and its capacity to pursue and achieve big goals. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: A LEADER RIDING HIGH] Reference
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