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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immodest
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I don't mean to sound immodest, but I graduated from high school when I was 15.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession.
▪ We call this land of ours Great Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice.
▪ Webb was an immodest publicist of his achievements, and amassed wealth but also large debts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immodest

Immodest \Im*mod"est\, a. [F. immodeste, L. immodestus immoderate; pref. im- not + modestus modest. See Modest.]

  1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.

  2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.

    Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought, But we proscribe the least immodest thought.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: Indecorous; indelicate; shameless; shameful; impudent; indecent; impure; unchaste; lewd; obscene.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immodest

1560s, "arrogant, impudent, pretentious," from Latin immodestus "unrestrained, excessive," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + modestus (see modest). Meaning "indecent" is from 1580s. Related: immodestly.

Wiktionary
immodest

a. Lacking in modesty; shameless.

WordNet
immodest

  1. adj. having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting" [ant: modest]

  2. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance [ant: modest]

Usage examples of "immodest".

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.

Even though I am without powerful friends in the service, yet my record is such that I would never expect half pay appointment, and although it might sound immodest I would confidently look forward to hoisting my own broad pennant before I am fifty years of age.

She had a passion for crusading, and she felt that with a newspaper at her command she could do tremendous things to defeat juvenile delinquency, the drug traffic, comic books, immodest bathing suits and other evils which were gnawing at the foundations of society.

In less than five years Andy and his partner opened another twenty branches, made a modest fortune, and then sold out for an immodest one to a big retail chain a couple of months before the stock-market crash of '87.

Doris wore what­ever she wanted to — dresses that even Ronda Ray would have thought immodest.