(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".
Indelicate
Definition:
(a.) Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(2) An analysis of insertions and deletions (indels) occurring in a databank of multiple sequence alignments based on protein tertiary structure is reported.
(3) Unfortunately for Ban, however, his leadership at the UN is indelibly associated with precisely the kind of diplomatic dysfunction put on display at such mega-conferences.
(4) The scene changed, my life had changed, and I moved into legal and more indelible forms of self-expression.
(5) I had a ball!” Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth’s damned spot, left an indelible mark.
(6) Sabi Sand said it had injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos' horns over the past 18 months to combat international poaching syndicates.
(7) The violent images from that period 10 years ago – of Israeli security forces expelling Jews from their houses – remain indelibly inscribed in the settler community’s consciousness, and are viewed like kryptonite by Israel’s most rightwing government ever.
(8) But the brutal conflict of the Thrilla in Manila is the one indelibly etched into boxing history.
(9) Except that there was a wind - a gale of ideas, music, appearance and lifestyle which would leave its indelible mark on Western society, and beyond.
(10) The present report represents an extension of initial 3H-proline autoradiographic studies designed to provide, at both the cytologic and histologic levels, an indelible topographic record of skeletal events in aging mice.
(11) Deliberate hypotension can reduce major blood loss and indelicate operations can produce a drier field increasing the ease of surgery and the likelihood of a good result.
(12) However, by 1884, Osler had already left his indelible imprint on the students (both medical and veterinary) he had taught in Montreal, one of whom took over the teaching of pathology in the veterinary college.
(13) A former West Australian attorney general , Jim McGinty, told the Age newspaper that the image of her splashed across media outlets left an indelible impression.
(14) And though the names and faces of many who were lynched have slipped from the pages of history, their deaths, the report argues, have left an indelible mark on race relations in America.
(15) Not only have they left an indelible mark on American life, but the Obamas are a couple of the most beloved national figures right now,” said Neil Sroka , communications director for Democracy for America who was an Obama campaign staffer in 2007-2008.
(16) It left indelible marks on the island’s political and education systems, both of which are closely modelled on those of the UK.
(17) A quick, simple method of doing this would be to provide patients' with a plastic card, similar to a credit card, with instructions and details of the reaction written on it with an indelible pen.
(18) To mark his appointment, Grohl wrote a personal blogpost about how record-shopping and music discovery had left an indelible mark on his own life.
(19) More than 60 people were killed in Taliban attacks on Saturday, with dozens more injured including 11 men whose index fingers were cut off by the Taliban because they were stained with the indelible ink that marked them out as voters.
(20) Or has 1984's winner The Bone People , alone, left an indelible scar?