modesty

The Queen Mum’s clothing still has hints of a 1930s silhouette, while Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth are in ’60s silhouettes like A-lines, albeit with an element of modesty.

Both reek of false modesty, but Deen does appear jumpy and genuinely anxious at times.

Mapei is soft-spoken, but that should not be mistaken for modesty.

The very limitations that we understand as modesty are erased by this process.

After Bates died, his successor at the RGS reflected, “I think his modesty was carried to a fault.”

Then again, my perception of modesty has been skewed ever since Katy Perry shot whip cream out of her bra, so who even knows.

She stripped off her mackintosh, as though she were stripping off her modesty, and stood before him revealed.

Smokers, tossing pipes and puffing smoke over the dinner-table, forgot all cleanliness and modesty.

The others being all agreed, Tom consented, with becoming modesty, to take the post of honour and of danger.

He eyed her artfully, winked playfully, and continued: "You'll like it when you get the modesty out of yourself."

Let modesty and kind feeling govern your conversation, as other rules of life.