Immodest

Definition: Immodest

Immodest

Adjective

1. Having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting".

2. Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "immodest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Immodest \Im*mod"est\, adjective. [French expression immodeste, from Latin expression immodestus immoderate; prefix im- not modestus modest. See Modest.]. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Immodest

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.

Crosswords: Immodest

Books

• An Immodest Agenda (reference)

• An Immodest Proposal (Signet Regency Romance) (reference)

• An Immodest Violet: The Life of Violet Hunt (reference)

• Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality) (reference)

• Immodest Agenda Rebuilding America Befor (reference)

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Why, Helen, I think eleven proposals in one week is positively immodest. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I was not immodest with him.

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Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

Censorship most often is used in cases of immodest or obscene photographs, perceived misrepresentation or defamation of Islam, and objectionable comments about national leaders. (references)

Human Rights

Comoros

Bans on alcohol and immodest dress are enforced sporadically, usually during religious months, such as Ramadan. (references)

Afghanistan

There was documentary evidence that Taliban forces, particularly religious police, threatened and beat women for what they considered immodest dress, including failure to wear a full body covering. (references)

Women

Morocco

However, such "honor crimes," a euphemism that refers to violent assaults with intent to commit murder against a female for her perceived immodest or defiant behavior, remain extremely rare in Morocco. (references)

Yemen

The Penal Code allows for leniency for persons guilty of committing a "crime against honor," a euphemism for violent assaults or killings committed against a female for her perceived immodest or defiant behavior. (references)

Jordan

The Criminal Code provides for leniency for a person found guilty of committing an "honor crime," a violent assault with intent to commit murder against a female by a relative for her perceived immodest behavior or alleged sexual misconduct. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "immodest": immodest claims. Additional references.

Albanian

i paturpshëm (bold, forward, indecent, malapert, shameless, unseemly), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير متواضع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нескромен (unmaidenly), неприличен (bawdy, foul, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), безсрамен (barefaced, brassy, brazen, graceless, impudent, outre, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous), безочлив (assured, audacious, brash, brazenfaced, graceless, impertinent, impudent, saucy, unabashed, unashamed), безпътен (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, profligate, reprobate, unsteady). (various references)

Chinese 

傲慢 (Arrogance, Arrogant, Boastful, Boastfulness, Contemptuous, haughty, insolent, Overbearing). (various references)

Czech

nestoudný (barefaced, brassy, brazen faced, impertinent, impudent, nasty, shameless), neslušný (discourteous, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, misbecoming, obscene, rude, unbecoming, uncivil, uncouth, unpresentable, unseemly, unsuitable), neskromný (high). (various references)

Farsi 

پررو (Barefaced, Brassy, Cheeky, Fresh, Impudent, Nervy, Pert, Presuming), نانجیب (Indecent), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), جسور (Adventurer, Bold, Boldface, Cocky, Defiant, Forward, Fresh, Hardy, Insolent, Pert, Presuming, Presumptuous, Rude, Wanton), بی عفت (Bawdy, Light, Unchaste), بی شرم (Barefaced, Brash, Brassy, Brazen, Unabashed). (various references)

Finnish

säädytön (improper, indecent, unmannerly, unseemly). (various references)

French

indécent (improper), impudique, immodeste, arrogant. (various references)

German

unbescheiden (immodestly, presumptuous, unhumble). (various references)

Greek 

άσεμνοσ (immoral, indecent, indecorous, obscene, racy, unchaste), αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, brassy, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impudence, impudent, saucy, squirt). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא צנוע (indecent, indecorous). (various references)

Hungarian

túlzott (affectation, complacency, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, far-fetched, foppish, inordinate, obsequiousness, obsequy, outre, over-anxious, overboard, overdone, over-excitement, overshot, steep), szerénytelen (arrogant), szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, impertinent, impudent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Indonesian

tak sopan (discourteous, impolite, indelicate). (various references)

Italian

impudico (indecent, lewd, unchaste), immodesto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

端たない (unladylike, vulgar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はしたない (unladylike, vulgar). (various references)

Manx

meenearagh (audacious, bold, brazen, glaring, glaring of injustice, imprudent, ribald, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), awane (foul, obscene, unchaste). (various references)

Pig Latin

immodestay.(various references)

Portuguese

insolente (arrogant, cockish, contemptuous, contumelious, flip, huffy, impertinent, insolent, lingerer, lord-like, malapert, pert, rough, rude, saucy, thrasonical, uppity), impudico (impure, lewd, salacious), impudente (impertinent, impudent, shameless, venturous), imodesto, presun�oso (important), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, overweening, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, sidy, snooty, square-toed, swanky), obsceno (bawdry, dirty, filthy, impure, indecent, obscene, ribald, scabrous, unclean), desonesto (cambered, crooked, devious, dishonest, drossy, false, impure, knavish, light-fingered, low-down, nasty, shady, sharp, shifty, thievish, tortuous, unchaste, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy). (various references)

Russian 

нескромный (indecent, indelicate, indiscreet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neskroman. (various references)

Spanish

inmodesto (unhumble), deshonesto (crooked, dishonest, dishonesty, improper, indecent, nasty, sharp, undecent). (various references)

Swedish

oblyg (barefaced, impolite, rude, unabashed, unashamed). (various references)

Turkish

utanmaz (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazenfaced, gay, impudent, ribald, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unembarassed), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), edepsiz (dirty, indecent, nasty, naughty, rude, shameless), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Ukrainian

нескромний (indiscreet, shameless, warm), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trơ trẽn (frontless, impudent), trơ tráo (bold, bold-faced, cheeky, impudent), khiếm nhâ, không biết xấu hổ (calm, cool, shameless), không đoan trang vô liêm sỉ, bất lịch sự; không đứng đắn. (various references)

Welsh

aflednais (indelicate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "immodest": immodesties, immodestly, immodesty. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dimmest, distome, midmost, modiste, tommies.

-2 letters: demits, mimeos, mismet, misted, modems, modest, somite, todies, tommed.

-3 letters: deism, deist, demit, demos, diets, dimes, disme, dites, doest, doits, domes, dotes, edits, eidos, emits, items, memos, metis, midst, mimed, mimeo, mimes, misdo, mites, modem, modes, moist, momes, moste, motes, odist, omits, sited, smite, smote, stied, stime.

+1 letter: immodesty, methodism.

+2 letters: immodestly, methodisms.

+3 letters: commodities, embodiments, immodesties, miscomputed, somatomedin.

+4 letters: admonishment, commiserated, demolishment, immortalised, impoundments, micromethods, semidominant, somatomedins.

+5 letters: admonishments, commendations, demolishments, dynamometries, immoderations, incommodities, mastoidectomy, medicamentous, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, postmodernism.