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:

But isn't there some point at which the media's choice of topic can become so controversial and so determinative of the course of the campaign that the principle of self-disclosure supersedes the principle of modesty?
To present-day eyes, expressions of extreme female modesty seem subversive, a stumbling block to the sane ordering of human affairs.
It was no time for modesty.
The antebellum modesty, while in part a reflection of the conventional etiquette of the time, may also have served a political objective: to alleviate the concerns of those who--in the early days of the republic--feared it might be transformed into a monarchy, and the president into a king.
"Accommodation" of modesty and abstinence--could you ask for a clearer example of backwards campus values than that?