Modesty
noun
The quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities.
She accepted the award with modesty.
Often appears as...
- show modesty
- false modesty
noun
The quality of behaving and especially dressing in ways that do not attract sexual attention.
Her modesty is evident in her choice of clothing.
Often appears as...
- dress with modesty
- observe modesty
noun
The quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities.
She accepted the award with modesty.
Often appears as...
- show modesty
- false modesty
noun
The quality of behaving and especially dressing in ways that do not attract sexual attention.
Her modesty is evident in her choice of clothing.
Often appears as...
- dress with modesty
- observe modesty
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Self-restraint
Modesty involves downplaying one's achievements or abilities, often to be polite or avoid seeming arrogant.
Despite his success, he spoke of his accomplishments with modesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The expectation of modesty can vary widely across cultures, affecting how one should express their abilities.
She exhibited modesty about her fluency in multiple languages, knowing the cultural norms.
Pro Tip 3/3Understatement
Modesty can manifest as understatement where one intentionally minimizes the importance of something.
He showed modesty by describing the marathon he won as 'just a little run'.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-restraint
Modesty involves downplaying one's achievements or abilities, often to be polite or avoid seeming arrogant.
Despite his success, he spoke of his accomplishments with modesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The expectation of modesty can vary widely across cultures, affecting how one should express their abilities.
She exhibited modesty about her fluency in multiple languages, knowing the cultural norms.
Pro Tip 3/3Understatement
Modesty can manifest as understatement where one intentionally minimizes the importance of something.
He showed modesty by describing the marathon he won as 'just a little run'.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-restraint
Modesty involves downplaying one's achievements or abilities, often to be polite or avoid seeming arrogant.
Despite his success, he spoke of his accomplishments with modesty.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Variation
The expectation of modesty can vary widely across cultures, affecting how one should express their abilities.
She exhibited modesty about her fluency in multiple languages, knowing the cultural norms.
Pro Tip 3/3Understatement
Modesty can manifest as understatement where one intentionally minimizes the importance of something.
He showed modesty by describing the marathon he won as 'just a little run'.
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Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
the modesty of her sentiment like the earhart women who came before and after her says volumes did amelia's work mean something to women in aviation diana trujido answers that question definitively her work at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory is a direct extension of a history that amelia helped to build
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
So you mentioned your expertise in innovation. You have a couple of lines of -- how to say it? -- of exquisite modesty in the book where you say you think like an engineer, you don't know much about politics, but actually you talk to top politicians more than any of us.
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Social animal - David...
twice the rate as women because men think they can swim across that lake but some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases their own overconfidence they have a pistola logical modesty they are open-minded in the face of ambiguity they are able to adjust
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David Brooks: The social...
This is a gender-linked trait, by the way. Men drown at twice the rate of women, because men think they can swim across that lake. But some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases, their own overconfidence. They have epistemological modesty.
Video examples
Sadie's Summer Camp -...
that her privacy was respected and that the privacy of the other campers was respected. So her changing was handled separately. And you asked Sadie's parents, you need to have a bathing suit that affords her more modesty than maybe other girls. Exactly.
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A Camera, Two Kids and a...
because they play music and drums and things that she must burst into tears and cry hysterically in order to honor her father and to say I don't want to leave dad you know and also as a sign of modesty that she had no interest in
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Rethink how you think...
insecurities are key to keep us modest humble and there are many advantages to modesty it keeps us attentive to negative feedback which means that we are more coachable it also stops us from being complacent and it also make us
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Adam Davidson: What we...
is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
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Bapticostals PIPE Church...
doing and everybody's hooked up in certain churches this is known as being slain in spirit the women are covered with sheets to protect their modesty when they fall
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Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
well done Hosanna then Thank You Sebastian for the modesty with which you were shooting this particular scene
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
the modesty of her sentiment like the earhart women who came before and after her says volumes did amelia's work mean something to women in aviation diana trujido answers that question definitively her work at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory is a direct extension of a history that amelia helped to build
Video examples
Bill Gates: The...
So you mentioned your expertise in innovation. You have a couple of lines of -- how to say it? -- of exquisite modesty in the book where you say you think like an engineer, you don't know much about politics, but actually you talk to top politicians more than any of us.
Video examples
Social animal - David...
twice the rate as women because men think they can swim across that lake but some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases their own overconfidence they have a pistola logical modesty they are open-minded in the face of ambiguity they are able to adjust
Video examples
David Brooks: The social...
This is a gender-linked trait, by the way. Men drown at twice the rate of women, because men think they can swim across that lake. But some people have the ability and awareness of their own biases, their own overconfidence. They have epistemological modesty.
Video examples
Sadie's Summer Camp -...
that her privacy was respected and that the privacy of the other campers was respected. So her changing was handled separately. And you asked Sadie's parents, you need to have a bathing suit that affords her more modesty than maybe other girls. Exactly.
Video examples
A Camera, Two Kids and a...
because they play music and drums and things that she must burst into tears and cry hysterically in order to honor her father and to say I don't want to leave dad you know and also as a sign of modesty that she had no interest in
Video examples
Rethink how you think...
insecurities are key to keep us modest humble and there are many advantages to modesty it keeps us attentive to negative feedback which means that we are more coachable it also stops us from being complacent and it also make us
Video examples
Adam Davidson: What we...
is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
Video examples
Bapticostals PIPE Church...
doing and everybody's hooked up in certain churches this is known as being slain in spirit the women are covered with sheets to protect their modesty when they fall
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
well done Hosanna then Thank You Sebastian for the modesty with which you were shooting this particular scene
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Quote examples
William Devane
American Actor
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.
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Nam June Paik
American Artist
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
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Ben Hecht
American Writer
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
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Gad Elmaleh
Moroccan Comedian
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
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Chris Evans
American Actor
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
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Marquis de Sade
French Novelist
Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
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Edith Sitwell
British Poet
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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Alex Kapranos
Scottish Musician
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Rain
South Korean Musician
Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
Quote examples
William Devane
American Actor
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.
Quote examples
Nam June Paik
American Artist
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
Quote examples
Ben Hecht
American Writer
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.
Quote examples
Gad Elmaleh
Moroccan Comedian
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
Quote examples
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Quote examples
Chris Evans
American Actor
Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
Quote examples
Marquis de Sade
French Novelist
Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Quote examples
Edith Sitwell
British Poet
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Quote examples
Alex Kapranos
Scottish Musician
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
Quote examples
Rain
South Korean Musician
Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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