IMMODEST Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

immodest

adjective

(ˌ)i(m)-ˈmä-dəst

Definition of immodest

as in familiar

showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty an immodest proposal for altering the town's traditional character by an uppity newcomer at his first town meeting

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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

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Adjective

As the Sun meets retrograde Mercury, a familiar daily frustration could reveal the assumption underneath it.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2026
The approach preserves familiar development workflows while changing how servers coordinate updates and distribute repository data.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of familiar

Adjective

Using an acronym meant for minor zoning squabbles against resistance to a massive, 80 mph express train slicing through dense residential blocks is an arrogant posture that completely obscures the true nature of this unconscionable project.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Steve Buscemi as Harry’s regular fence; Tatiana Maslany as his estranged daughter; and Will Price as the arrogant, heat-packing scion of a Manhattan crime family also star.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrogant

Adjective

The story resonated, not because this one World Cup match mattered, but because the presumptuous disdain that America showed for everyone else was so familiar.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of presumptuous

Adjective

The typically smug host appeared upset earlier this year at the Golden Globes when presenter Wanda Sykes roasted him and another nominee up for best performance in stand-up comedy on television, Ricky Gervais.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Here was my chance to get out of London, this counterfeit of death with its everywhere rage and its moribund culture and its smug population and its streets steeped in resentment and the sky pressing down like a chloroform rag.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of smug

Adjective

Now, Foxx not only has a new outlook on life, but is a proud dad of three.

— Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 4 Nov. 2026
Takeshi’s father is a petty and proud man, in ways continually expanded upon throughout the film’s runtime, though how he’s actually framed never truly changes.

— Kambole Campbell, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of proud

Adjective

Also on Weekend Update, James Austin Johnson portrayed a selfish Kevin O’Leary, the Shark Tank investor who is backing a massive data center campus in northwest Utah.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2026
That’s also how Violet is thinking about their portrayal of Maureen, whose eccentric performance art and selfish behavior often give the character a bad rap.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of selfish

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