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Immodesty is part of the ebullient Texan's style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Immodesty becomes few men as well as it does Zeckendorf.

From Time Magazine Archive

Immodesty in the minds of many people definitely connotes that which pleases the eyes and the senses.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

She sat, A spectral, scraggy, beet-nosed, ankle-less, Obtrusive-panted, splay-foot, slattern-shape, Of grim Medusa-faced Immodesty, Caged cumbrously in a stiff, swaying, swollen, Shin-scarifying, hose-revealing frame Of wide-meshed metal, like a monster mousetrap— Hideous, indecent, awkward!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

This Charge of Immodesty upon a young Lady unmarried, is what I can by no Means allow: nor does the uncleanly Term become the Pen of a chast and polite Writer.

From The Theater (1720) by Falstaffe, John, Sir