Sample Sentences for

immodest

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

I hope I don't sound immodest, but I'm a better leader than she is.

It seemed immodest, but it was a thought that often came to him.  (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

We call this land of ours Great-- Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice.  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989

"Scott is very strong guy, I am very strong guy," Lopsang explained to me with characteristic immodesty.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

Don't mean to sound immodest, but I have been trying to train up a bit.  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Hound of Rowan, 2007

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) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

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) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1, 1881

When he lectured on the history of England, he was the most brilliant and passionate scholar I had ever heard, outrageously partisan, an immodest dispenser of inflamed rhetoric.  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

Like, as I said, his mouse, she tooted brandy immodestly and spent half of her time in the upchuck...... HONEY (Focusing) I know these people...... GEORGE: Do you!†  (source) Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1962

Their disapproval had grown stronger because of her unwomanly conduct in the matter of the mills, her immodesty in showing herself when she was pregnant and so many other things.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

It wasn't that the words seemed immodest.  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy in the most barefaced manner.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Now she had not only lost that modesty, she had radically broken with it, ceremoniously using her new immodesty to draw a dividing line through her life and proclaim that youth and beauty were overrated and worthless.†  (source) Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984

Her parents were embarrassed by her suggestive attire and immodest dancing.

She was embarrassed by his immodest dancing.

I took them off immediately, feeling that somehow they were immodest.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

I would never let myself be hypnotized, it is so immodest!  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

He stopped, looked at my dripping, clinging—to him—immodestly short dress.  (source) Octavia Butler, Kindred, 1979

It claimed to teach dance, but instead it taught immodesty, promiscuity.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

[about going to the bathroom in front of everyone] Since then we have learned better than to be shy about such trifling immodesties.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

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.  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

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) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

It seemed immodest to let a strange man into our bedchamber, but Grandfather and Eliza showed him in to see the patient.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793, 2000

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) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

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) Margaret Peterson Haddix, Uprising, 2007

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) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009