(a.) Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservatives blame the problems of sexual violence on western values, immodest dress or even on the over-consumption of junk food.
(2) "I hope I'm not being immodest, but I realised I would go out and do it, and the more people seemed to like it the more I seemed to do stupid things and dance.
(3) "Anyone who claims to have discovered the ideal procedure in the treatment of gastric ulcer, should be considered immodest."
(4) Do you worry that every conceivable angle of what might be considered too modest or immodest has yet to be thoroughly interrogated, even regulated?
(5) As a state small in everything except sandy territory and oil, and distant from the main centres of Sunni population, how can it be so immodest as to imagine it will be entrusted for any length of time with the destiny of the Sunni heartland?
(6) For me the most interesting material is the set of five notepads (c 2006-08) that contain Ballard's notes for an unwritten novel that had the working title An Immodest Proposal or How the World Declared War on America, in which a global coalition has reached the end of its diplomatic patience with America's imperialism and makes a pre-emptive strike against it.
(7) Conservatives blame the problems on western values, immodest dress or even on the over-consumption of junk food.
(8) Although the popes are regarded as successors to Saint Peter, no pope has ever been immodest enough to call himself Peter II.
(9) It's an immodest, wonky affair, though not without eccentric charm, and there's good fun to be had if you don't get haemorrhoids from sitting through its 149 minutes.
(10) Gore Vidal , the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, has died in Los Angeles.
(11) Among the destitute locals are scores of wealthy, gaudy Colombian drug barons in their immodest cars, flaunting their hi-tech luxury lifestyle, with beautiful women on their arms.
(12) It was inevitable that the company's immodest ambition would, as the American media business journalist Ken Auletta describes it in his new book Googled, "wake up the bears" – those organisations and companies which had been comfortable where they were until this upstart came along.
(13) If Gladstone, after 50 years in politics and four terms as PM, could not find an answer, and no government in the next century found it a constitutional possibility, might it not be somewhat immodest for this government to tell us that they had found the answer in just eight weeks?
(14) Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country … I don’t want all of it to come crashing down in an hour.” The crisis in Ukraine hasn’t quite threatened that, but it has rattled the Lukashenko administration.
(15) She's not being immodest: at 36, Washington is poised to make the breakthrough from interesting cinema actor to movie megastar.
(16) It may be rash to mark the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by paraphrasing the opening sentence of his notoriously immodest 1968 book The Double Helix .
(17) His immodest email signature features an "HMO Daddy" logo, complete with gold crown and a photo of a self-satisfied looking Haliburton sat at a desk.
(18) In Australia the PM was once described in the press by an opponent as "shallow, cynical, immodest, mealy-mouth, duplicitous, a boy in a bubble, a foreign policy impostor unfit to lead the nation".
Indecent
Definition:
(a.) Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(2) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(3) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(4) Zimmerman was charged with an offence of sending by public communication network an offensive, indecent, obscene, menacing message or matter.
(5) Of those convicted of indecent assault on persons under 16 and of gross indecency with children, 48% had a previous history of psychiatric disorder.
(6) In Romania in October a man was subsequently charged with producing and distributing indecent images of children and blackmail.
(7) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
(8) Allen admitted three sexual assaults, one assault by penetration and one charge of distributing indecent photographs.
(9) He also faced numerous charges relating to his time working as a “spiritual healer” – including 22 counts of aggravated sexual assault and 14 counts of aggravated indecent assault – and had been bailed for allegedly being an accessory to the killing of his former wife.
(10) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(11) Three fellow activists from the group, Femen , are on trial for public indecency after demonstrating topless in front of Tunisia's Palace of Justice.
(12) George, 39, hung her head as she admitted seven sexual assaults and six counts of distributing and making indecent pictures of children.
(13) They have been charged with public indecency and being a threat to public order.
(14) It has been a great privilege to have been involved in this sale and we are immensely pleased that all the people who bid for this unique item and indeed the wider public have recognised Turing’s importance and place in history.” Turing, whose work cracking the German codes was vital to the British war effort, was convicted in 1952 of gross indecency with a 19-year-old man.
(15) He was prosecuted under section 127(1) of the Communications Act 2003, which prohibits sending "by means of a public electronic communications network a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".
(16) On Wednesday, Sboui appeared before an investigating judge in Kairouan who is considering the charges; they include public indecency, desecrating a cemetery and belonging to a band of malefactors seeking to damage public property.
(17) In the resulting viral video , “Gertrude” said what worried her most about the Freedom party’s politics was that they brought out “the basest in people – not the decent, but the indecent” – adding “and it’s not the first time something like this has happened”.
(18) The X Factor judge Louis Walsh is threatening libel action against the Sun after being told by Irish police that he was no longer under investigation for an alleged indecent assault.
(19) Because the legal interpretation of terms like “debauchery” or “public indecency” is so broad, sentences are often maximised by judges who “stack” similarly-worded offences.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.