modesty

IPA: mˈɑdʌsti

The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
Moderate behaviour; reserve.
(specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.

Examples of "modesty" in Sentences

It is thus that what we call modesty is often only
Only because what we call modesty is awkward bashfulness and mauvaise honte.
I brought up the term modesty, and none of the 4 young ladies knew what the word meant!
But whether modesty is actually good or bad is not my primary concern with what you appeared to say.
I only know that it is the best which I can find, to express one excellence which we see in our Lord, which is like what we call modesty in common human beings.
It is high time for _true_ modesty to take the place of that _false modesty_ which has driven virtue, like an exile, out of the land, and peopled it largely with
Finally, I told the reporter that most of the girls I interviewed sought a new kind of empowerment, and that religion wasn't the main impetus behind what she dubs the modesty "backlash."
The laughter caused by grotesque mimicry or caricature of pompous or solemn individuals seems to arise from the same (more or less unconscious) working of the mind as that caused by some unexpected neglect of those social "taboos" or laws of behaviour which we call modesty, decency, and propriety.
Major Bath, returned the compliment with a very low bow; but did not venture to make the first advance to familiarity, as he was truly possessed of that quality which the Greeks considered in the highest light of honour, and which we term modesty; though indeed, neither ours nor the Latin language hath any word adequate to the idea of the original.