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immodest

Adjective

Meaning

Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Arnold Schwarzenegger

For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present. Luciano Pavarotti

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem. Edward Sapir

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her. George Sand

O! immodest mortal! Your destiny is the joy of watching the evershifting battle! Ludwig Boltzmann

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