Words similar to modesty

Example sentences for: modesty

How can you use “modesty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Like the original veil, it serves to create the conditions of female modesty.
This called to mind a remark of the English playwright Alan Bennett (no relation, I think): "All modesty is false.
This is not modesty--Beatty has no modesty.
Meanwhile, television fawned over McCartney, brushing aside the "modesty" of her musical skills and marveling at her heroic struggle against breast cancer.
As with most Clinton proposals, this one's modesty is meant to disarm.