modesty 的定义
plural mod·es·ties.
- the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
- regard for decency of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
- simplicity; moderation.
modesty 近义词
shyness
modesty 的近义词 29 个
- decency
- humility
- propriety
- purity
- reticence
- simplicity
- virtue
- bashfulness
- celibacy
- chastity
- constraint
- coyness
- delicacy
- demureness
- diffidence
- discreetness
- humbleness
- inhibition
- innocence
- meekness
- prudery
- quietness
- reserve
- self-effacement
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- lack of pretension
- unostentatiousness
modesty 的反义词 11 个
更多modesty例句
- While that practice is accepted in the United States, it’s frowned upon in many other countries, where modesty is more culturally valued.
- Advocates for greater modesty say mummies did not agree to have their bodies put on public display, and that cultural respect demands they be removed from view.
- Scott did no damage to her reputation for extravagant modesty when she published, in her first-ever tweet, that she was “Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff.”
- He once told me that modesty may be a public virtue, but it was not a private one.
- Today, though, “judicial modesty is now very much out of fashion in conservative legal circles.”
- 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.