immodest

[ ih-mod-ist ]

/ ɪˈmɒd ɪst /

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adjective

not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.

not modest in assertion or pretension; forward; impudent.

Origin of immodest

First recorded in 1560–70, immodest is from the Latin word immodestus unrestrained, immoderate. See im-², modest

SYNONYMS FOR immodest

2 vain, exaggerated, inflated.

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OTHER WORDS FROM immodest

im·mod·est·ly, adverb im·mod·es·ty, noun

Words nearby immodest

immobility, immobilize, immoderacy, immoderate, immoderation, immodest, immokalee, immolate, immolation, immoral, immoralism

Example sentences from the Web for immodesty

The clean soldiers are too polite to tell you how you smell to them, but their faces reveal the immodesty of it.

Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq |Nathan Bradley Bethea |August 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He believes this immodesty hurts women, and proves the university has lost any mission it once had.

Yale Classmates Say Nathan Harden Gets Yale and Sex All Wrong |Kathryn Olivarius, Claire Gordon |August 24, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Refined women condemn the immodesty with which strangers are introduced into the sanctuary of marriage.

The Physiology of Marriage, Complete |Honore de Balzac
Was she, indeed, of marriageable age, and in permitting her to go abroad was there even a suspicion of immodesty?

A Noble Queen (Volume II of III) |Philip Meadows Taylor

An immodest act is declared to be modest because Heloisa had committed a previous act of immodesty.

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) |Alexander Pope
The Priscillianists were accused, like the Manichans, of obscene doctrines, of religious nakedness and immodesty.

A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) |Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
To soften its immodesty still further, Marie threw a gauze scarf over her shoulders, left bare and far too low by the red drapery.

The Chouans |Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for immodesty

immodest

/ (ɪˈmɒdɪst) /

adjective

indecent, esp with regard to sexual propriety; improper

bold, impudent, or shameless

Derived forms of immodest

immodestly, adverb immodesty, noun

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