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Recent Examples of immodest His own immodest needs included regular meals at some of Midtown Manhattan’s finest restaurants, including Per Se, Jean-Georges, Masa and Marea, according to prosecutors. Michael Loria, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025 Unlike Swimply, Shvimply’s interface removes any imagery that could be considered immodest. Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025 Not to be immodest, but the third did more than the second and the second did more than the first. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024 After Mahmoud, however, all of these parents now have a right to advance notice. Schools that fail to predict that a lesson about a Jewish woman with a career, a Hindu husband, or an immodest wardrobe will offend a parent’s religious belief will now face very serious financial consequences. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 See All Example Sentences for immodest
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immodest
Adjective
  • There's a new, yet familiar, voice in Bo Nix's ear these days.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
  • In the New Hampshire Senate primary, the race features a congressman, a Democratic socialist, and two familiar Republicans.
    Louisa Moller, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Everybody on our side understands that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against a president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king.
    NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Most obviously, front and center, and in endlessly intrusive close-up, there’s Pattinson — who also serves as producer — playing the arrogant, fame-addicted, megalomaniac Hansen.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • In the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era, this thinking went, Congress had gone too far in constraining the executive branch with presumptuous reforms that aimed to secure greater accountability and transparency from the White House.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Treating that dedication as a decoder ring for this film’s intentions would be presumptuous.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 July 2026
Adjective
  • Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
  • Li at times plays Cola with a smug impetuousness that belies her naivety about this world to a satisfying degree.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • Bob Howell, executive vice president and chief sales officer at Manhattan Associates, said Boscov’s has a proud history of knowing their customers and communities.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The proud mom posed alongside her kids in one cute snap showing each of her children holding a chalkboard sign with details of their first day.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • No one, in my opinion, comes close to this selfish, foul-mouthed and stupid showman.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • All of the big talk about personal drive, which makes Free Solo so darkly compelling, immediately crumbles into selfish pablum the second that children are introduced into the equation.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

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“Immodest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immodest. Accessed 9 Sep. 2026.

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