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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
  • Such respectability politics are familiar to outsiders everywhere.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Whitley had just made the all-too-familiar drive home from Statesboro to Atlanta, just over three hours on Interstates 16 and 75.
    — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 22 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Similarly, Zo — seen recently as the monster hunter in Na Hong-jin’s delirious sci-fi action epic, Hope — stays for most of the running time just the right side of smug entitlement.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • That’s enough to make any mother proud, but Chiefs defensive end Ashton Gillotte’s mother, Veronica, had another reason to be pleased with her son.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
  • All Travis Kelce wants to do is score touchdowns and make his wife proud.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • So unlike selfish actions, selfless acts of kindness have a real and lasting basis.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2026
  • No one, in my opinion, comes close to this selfish, foul-mouthed and stupid showman.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Immodest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immodest. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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