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?
Then, moving in to eat his cake, he asks us to applaud their modesty.
In "Flytrap's Trashy Books," David Plotz says William Bennett is guilty of false modesty.
A colleague likens Remnick's avoidance of limousine service to President Carter's despised modesty.
Le Monde said the German celebrations were conducted "with a certain modesty, as if to allay the fears that a united Germany, not always wrongly, has traditionally provoked in its neighbors."