Maybe the immodesty is proof that global warming exists. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903] Reference
But this upsurge in immodesty applies to child rearing as well. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
We should be worrying about middle age women these days as much as girls, because the immodesty is starting with the older women. From Wordnik.com. [Protecting Our Daughters] Reference
(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. From Wordnik.com. [TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE] Reference
The result of his immodesty has been a persistent hunger for offices that most people thought beyond his abilities. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Reference
I believe the immodesty is the first sign of it. From Wordnik.com. [New Link] Reference
Our moral judgements about "immodesty" comes out of seeing sexuality from that perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Modestly Yours] Reference
In which it would be thought immodesty to speak out?. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
This is crime! this is shame! this is immodesty, for you!. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
The Emperor smiled as though apologizing for such immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Are you mad, indeed, -- this immodesty, this disrespect to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
"Why not learn from the best?" said Clothahump with typical immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
May not a flush spring as naturally from shy reserve as from immodesty?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
If I may say so of myself without immodesty, I am a rapid and assured workman. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Assange, despite his faltering manner, exudes self-confidence, immodesty even. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Assange: the whistleblower] Reference
In a surprising burst of immodesty, I'll add that I don't need to learn how to be funny. From Wordnik.com. [sirilyan Diary Entry] Reference
It was not immodesty, but honesty when he answered that the subject had, indeed, come up. From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Unknown, Famous Leiber and Stoller] Reference
Ulla saith, Jerusalem had not been destroyed but for their immodesty one towards another. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
With no immodesty, Laria knew that she'd be a Tower Prime when she'd finished her training. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
Self-knowledge must not be confused with self-conceit; for it implies no immodesty or egotism. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Even though the Greeks were a byword for immodesty, I had never thought a king could sink so low. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
(Forgive my immodesty, but I'm an old hand at such things, and the calculations took no time at all.). From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
According to their standard of morality and taste, the rites of the Endowment are devoid of immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
‘Think tanks are more important than universities now,’ Frum told me, without a hint of immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [Britain needs US-style think tanks to counter the Left’s grip on universities] Reference
Out of it he created for himself a conscience, and clothes, and immodesty, and a hereafter, and a soul. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
He was famous for his immodesty, except that in him it came off as something else, self-amazement perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Rhapsody Imbued] Reference
Shortly afterward I landed to assist and, if you will excuse my immodesty, took the single prisoner we got. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Out of reverence to Cato, he for a while connived at her impurity and immodesty, but at length dismissed her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The restless importunity of the beggars, and the immodesty of the lowest class of women, are highly disgusting. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Botany Bay] Reference
That is to say, modesty in a writer consists in exposing what is false, immodesty in setting forth what is true. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
She was reminded of their first meeting, when he had confronted her on the royal beach, accusing her of immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
I can offer without immodesty except the rather poor one that I should like to see a “Uniform Edition” myself. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
On Tuesday, New York Times columnist David Brooks took Americans to task for what he perceives to be an epidemic of immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: Who Called Ms. Manners?] Reference
Her white and perfect body, only half seen in the half-darkness, conveyed a sense of the purest beauty with no hint of immodesty. From Wordnik.com. [Loaded Dice]
The girl will be taught modesty or immodesty, truth or falsehood; the lad will be taught honor or dishonor, simplicity or affectation. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
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