(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".
Untoward
Definition:
(prep.) Toward.
(a.) Froward; perverse.
(a.) Awkward; ungraceful.
(a.) Inconvenient; troublesome; vexatious; unlucky; unfortunate; as, an untoward wind or accident.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(2) The functional results are excellent and we did not find any untoward effects attributable to our technique.
(3) Certain untoward effects associated with the use of direct-current electrical catheter ablation of the ventricular endomyocardium have been noted.
(4) There were no untoward clinical laboratory side effects with the exception of the one cimetidine patient who experienced diarrhoea and a small number who showed slight, asymptomatic rise in plasma creatinine level.
(5) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(6) No untoward serious side effects have been observed, and the growth of children was not slowed.
(7) Oxytocin in both dosage schedules was well tolerated and no untoward side effects were observed.
(8) Hereditary cataracts, as well as congenital cataracts produced in response to untoward environmental input, can be properly understood only within a dynamic developmental context.
(9) The low milk levels, as well as the previously determined poor oral absorption of aztreonam, suggest a low risk of untoward effects in the nursing infant.
(10) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(11) We concluded that although triglycyllysine vasopressin significantly reduced portal pressure in patients with hepatitis B-related cirrhosis, it produced untoward systemic haemodynamic changes similar to those seen with vasopressin.
(12) The author reviews the literature reporting the untoward effects of withdrawing monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).
(13) This untoward event must be added to the growing list of complications associated with the placement of such catheters.
(14) He said nothing untoward had happened except the agency had issued a poorly worded press release, describing it as a mistake and “over the top”.
(15) No untoward reaction of any significance was noted.
(16) On ingestion of food items to which antibodies were demonstrated, no untoward symptom occurred nor was complement activation observed in vivo.
(17) Although both extracts induced some untoward allergic reactions, no adrenaline was used at any time during the study.
(18) Animal experiment did not reveal any untoward effect of 1.5% hydrogen peroxide on the local tissues exposed to the solution except a transient increase of lymphocyte infiltration and exudate.
(19) Thus, the untoward side effects of a tetracycline like minocycline which is a frequent complaint of the patients, appears to be due to a central disinhibition of the vestibular equilibrium regulating mechanisms.
(20) The most frequent untoward effects were low white blood cells count (29.7%), skin rash (16.2%) and low platelet count (13.5%).