Although it might sound immodest of me to say so, I am very proud of what we have accomplished.
an immodest proposal for altering the town's traditional character by an uppity newcomer at his first town meeting
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bold, familiar, forward, free, overfamiliar, presuming, presumptuous;
demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, unassertive, unpretentious;
arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egomaniacal, egotistic (or egotistical), highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-hat, hoity-toity, important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious;
cavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, pretentious, snobbish, stuck-up, supercilious, superior;
audacious, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, overbold, pert, sassy, saucy;
: having or showing a high or too high opinion of yourself or your worth
of clothing : showing a lot of your body in a way that is considered improper
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