Sample sentences for IMMODEST - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
immodest as it sounds

Definition

vain or conceited (an exaggerated opinion of self-confidence or importance)

immodest = vain or conceited

Other Uses (with this meaning)

I hope I don't sound immodest, but I'm a better leader than she is.
We call this land of ours Great— Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

immodest = vain or conceited

Cabbage basked in his son's fame, but Kathryn—closer to her son in temperament—worried about appearing immodest.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

immodest = vain or conceited

2 —as in:
immodest dress

Definition

considered improper — especially too sexually suggestive which is typically said of clothing

immodestly = in a sexually suggestive manner

Other Uses (with this meaning)

immodest = sexually suggestive

immodest = sexually suggestive

She encouraged women to adopt the "bloomer," a baggy-legged pant worn beneath a knee-length skirt that would not in any way be considered immodest today.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble

immodest = sexually suggestive

Mother listened for a moment, chewing her lip, then threw her hands in the air and said that she'd had no idea the costume would be so immodest.
Tara Westover -- Educated

immodest = improperly sexually suggestive

They weren't, not technically, but I knew why I wanted them—for my body, so it would be noticed—and that seemed immodest even if the clothes were not.
Tara Westover -- Educated

immodest = improper

I took them off immediately, feeling that somehow they were immodest.
Tara Westover -- Educated

immodest = improperly sexually suggestive

It was, he submitted, too short, too low, too immodestly thin, and much too expensive.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

immodestly = improperly

It claimed to teach dance, but instead it taught immodesty, promiscuity.
Tara Westover -- Educated

immodesty = improper sexually suggestive behavior

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

immodest = improper

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