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:

Where Gore boasts about his accomplishments, Bradley says he's trying "to find a balance between modesty and confidence."
On picking up Washington's first inaugural, one is immediately struck by the modesty.
Although pushiness is not a quality naturally approved of in Cornwall, neither is undue modesty: standing in his own light like the Mayor of Market Jew (another apocryphal figure).
and a third pair--for modesty,for the covering of sex.
This called to mind a remark of the English playwright Alan Bennett (no relation, I think): "All modesty is false.