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immodest
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immodest as in:  immodest as it sounds

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    I hope I don't sound immodest, but I'm a better leader than she is.
    immodest = vain or conceited
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    Jake Spoon wasn't as talkative as Gus, but he was just as immodest.  (source)
    immodest = non-humble
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    We call this land of ours Great-- Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice.  (source)
    immodest = vain or conceited
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    "Scott is very strong guy, I am very strong guy," Lopsang explained to me with characteristic immodesty.  (source)
    immodesty = non-humble manner
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    Cabbage basked in his son's fame, but Kathryn—closer to her son in temperament—worried about appearing immodest.  (source)
    immodest = vain or conceited
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    Nately did not glory too immodestly that his girl was a prostitute, and the chaplain's awareness stemmed mainly from Captain Black, who never slouched past their table without a broad wink at the chaplain and some tasteless, wounding gibe about her to Nately.†  (source)
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    On the lips of a person less advanced in life and less enlightened by experience than Mrs. Touchett such a declaration would savour of immodesty, even of arrogance.  (source)
    immodesty = vanity or conceit
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    Don't mean to sound immodest, but I have been trying to train up a bit.  (source)
    immodest = vain or conceited
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    The men on the backstretch assumed that anyone who made such a point of saying so little had to have something to hide, something shady or, perhaps, something immodestly valiant.†  (source)
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    When I visited them [the prostitutes] at first I thought nothing could exceed them for impudence and immodesty, but I found the more I was acquainted with them the more they excelled in their brutality.†  (source)
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    It wasn't that the words seemed immodest.  (source)
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    It was in the glass I saw Mr. Viccars standing behind me, and I dropped the dress, embarrassed to be caught so immodestly preening.†  (source)
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    It is a wonder that she can even bathe herself without fainting at the immodesty of it all.†  (source)
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immodest as in:  immodest dress

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She was sent home from school for dressing too immodestly.
immodestly = in a sexually suggestive manner
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    Her parents were embarrassed by her suggestive attire and immodest dancing.
    immodest = sexually suggestive
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    She was embarrassed by his immodest dancing.
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    She thought this photo verged in the immodest, even though our legs weren't showing.  (source)
    immodest = improperly sexually suggestive
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    I took them off immediately, feeling that somehow they were immodest.  (source)
    immodest = improperly sexually suggestive
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    I waited with the men in their guayabera shirts and huaraches, and their cowboy boots; the women, from petite to massive, appeared immodestly content in short shorts and halter tops, their rubber thongs slapping the hard floors of the Phoenix airport, which was optimistically called the Sky Harbor.  (source)
    immodestly = improperly (due to showing too much of their bodies)
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    It claimed to teach dance, but instead it taught immodesty, promiscuity.  (source)
    immodesty = improper sexually suggestive behavior
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    [about going to the bathroom in front of everyone] Since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties.  (source)
    immodesties = improper public behavior
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    It seemed immodest to let a strange man into our bedchamber, but Grandfather and Eliza showed him in to see the patient.  (source)
    immodest = improper
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    He stopped, looked at my dripping, clinging—to him—immodestly short dress.  (source)
    immodestly = improperly
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    Bella pulled her wool skirt up over her head, blocking out the smoke and the flames. Immodest, she thought, an English word she'd just learned.  (source)
    Immodest = improper
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    They would show how well off the Jews of Warsaw were — and how immoral and despicable they were too, hence the scenes of Jewish men and women sharing the baths, immodestly stripping naked in front of each other.  (source)
    immodestly = improperly
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    She had wide tilted eyes, with a direct and immodest stare. Her arched eyebrows suggested a questioning mind, her full lips a sensuality that was indecent for the times.  (source)
    immodest = improper
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    Sometimes it takes the form of honor killing, in which a family kills one of its own girls because she has behaved immodestly or has fallen in love with a man (often there is no proof that they have had sex, and autopsies of victims of honor killings frequently reveal the hymen to be intact).  (source)
    immodestly = improperly
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