modesties

His false modesties cannot hide his true arrogance and self-importance.

McCain Just After 9/11: "Next Up, Baghdad!" 2009

Gentleman has much about which to be modest without inventing modesties that are diametrically opposed to the facts at hand, and, though the Rt.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality: 2009

October 23, 2009 at 8:14 am dats teh one! fyreman gave her a blankie to protex her modesties

Catberries - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.

The Virginians 2006

"Do you presume, incidentally, " I asked, 'to arrogate to yourself the rights or modesties, or the least of the prerogatives of the free woman?

Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

Whereupon we call him the _Disabler_ or figure of _Extenuation_: and this extenuation is vsed to diuers purposes, sometimes for modesties sake, and to auoide the opinion of arrogancie, speaking of our selues or of ours, as he that disabled himselfe to his mistresse thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Life will be so much more wholesome when women propose marriage as men do and have a plain, frank talk about it instead of their eternal business of veils and reticences, fugitive impulses real or coquettish, modesties real or faked.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen have sent for you.

Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

I'm so het up I can't set still, an 'besides, mebbe we can get the story the way it really happened, from somebody who ain't bound an' gagged an 'chloroformed by such unbecomin' modesties.

The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour.

Act II. Scene II 1909