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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
  • Habity Design The Habity bedside clock looks like a familiar retro alarm clock, but inside sits a low-power e-paper screen, a speaker, and a small collection of calming sounds.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The statutory argument will be familiar to anyone following the Kalshi litigation.
    The Insider, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • As such, there is a tendency among such countries to view Europeans as arrogant and self-serving, perhaps even neo-colonialist, with a desire to at least maintain, or maybe even strengthen, their position of power.
    Simon Chadwick, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • James, Lord Dalhousie, the arrogant and ruthless Governor General of British India, who had long coveted the riches of Punjab and the Koh-i-Noor, was triumphant.
    Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • This Queens bakery comes from two restaurant-industry veterans and proud Filipinos Kimberly Camara and Kevin Borja, who started a pop-up back in 2020 and quickly developed a cult following that demanded a brick-and-mortar.
    Kyle Beechey, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Salesforce is proud to be an early investor, customer, and partner.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Not because this generation is somehow softer or more selfish.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026
  • In essence, charisma is a vehicle for alignment and temporarily eroding the individual or selfish agendas that typically undermine effective group coordination and team collaboration.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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“Immodest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immodest. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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