Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Modest to excess; bashful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Modest to excess; bashful.
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- adjective Excessively
modest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lincoln may be being overmodest here: although the book had already sold several thousand copies, none of the other readers seems to have discovered the message.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Lincoln may be being overmodest here: although the book had already sold several thousand copies, none of the other readers seems to have discovered the message.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Lincoln may be being overmodest here: although the book had already sold several thousand copies, none of the other readers seems to have discovered the message.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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An overmodest beginner will make the mistake of playing only against her likewise beginning friends; the result is that she takes a discouragingly long time finding out how to use her racket properly and never gets a chance to return a really good serve.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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Like many others 'clothed with a little brief authority' he was not overmodest in showing his importance.
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Had Mac been overmodest, before, when he had said he was no great angler?
Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910
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Just here I rise to remark: For effective purposes one must not be unduly sensitive or overmodest in writing autobiography -- for, being the events and memoirs of his life, written by himself, the ever-present pronoun "I" dances in such lively attendance and in such profusion on the pages that whatever pride he may have in the events they chronicle is somewhat abashed at its repetition.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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POWET.TV 2009
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"Well, Mrs. van Daan, I agree that it's much better if a person isn't overmodest.
The Diary Of A Young Girl Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 1991
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