(a.) Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
(a.) Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.
(a.) Evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Incubation with IFN alpha or IFN gamma for 24 h resulted in only modest cytokinetic alterations, and they did not modify the effects of FUra.
(2) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(3) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(4) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(5) Bupropion, in contrast, had a modest effect only in CD-1 mice.
(6) These data support a modest role for alpha 1-adrenergic coronary vasoconstriction during exercise but fail to document an additional role for postsynaptic alpha 2-adrenergic coronary vasoconstriction during exercise.
(7) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
(8) The patient made modest improvement with high-dose intravenous steroids.
(9) Modest reductions in renal function as measured by clearances of inulin and p-aminohippurate occurred acutely only in the patients with renal impairment.
(10) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(11) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
(12) Simultaneous metabolic studies of human normal fibrinogen and asialofibrinogen in rabbits revealed only a modest decrease in the half-life of the asialoprotein compared to the intact protein, with no preferential uptake of the asialo-derivative by the liver.
(13) Levels of involvement in the program were modest, with only 16% of those screened having over 10 clinical contacts and 24% still involved after 3 months.
(14) Testosterone and estrogen administration at low or modest doses to individuals with the capacity to produce GH causes GH production and IGF-I levels to increase.
(15) The more modest effect of (n-3) fatty acid supplementation in decreasing LTB4 generation was not due to blockade of the cyclooxygenase pathway.
(16) The effect of volume expansion on sodium, calcium and magnesium remaining in the proximal tubule was relatively modest and not affected by furosemide.
(17) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
(18) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
(19) In order to improve the modest oral activity of PGE2 as an inhibitor of gastric acid secretion, analogs were prepared and tested orally in histamine-challenged rats.
(20) Specific binding of insulin did not differ between control and modestly insulinopenic diabetics but was increased significantly in the severely insulinopenic diabetics.
Prudish
Definition:
(a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of his work – including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979) and Ghostbusters (1984), all of which he co-wrote, and Caddyshack (1980), which he co-wrote and directed – changed the course of US film comedy, even if the prudish might argue that it was not for the better.
(2) This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.
(3) Read says that while his father operated in louche artistic circles and had "ditched his first wife to be with my mother, slightly in the liberated spirit of Shelley or Gauguin", he had been born and brought up in the 19th century and deep down had a "rather prudish" approach to life.
(4) Recent news regarding Ira Sachs’ new film Love Is Strange is a prime example of how age classification systems can smother art under bigoted and prudish anxieties.
(5) Emin's beautiful body is her one great idea, but I suspect that she is rather prudish, which means that there are limits to the use she can make of her body and its rackety past.
(6) I worry because I find myself siding with Don over Megan and given the selfish, prudish, treachorous, patriarchal figure he is I know this ain't right.
(7) Apart from physiological flushes represented by emotional or prudish blushing, post-prandial flushes and menopausal hot flushes, various pathologic flushes exist of various etiologies: endocrine, dysmetabolic, histaminic and iatrogenic.
(8) Liekens has said the UK has been "too prudish for too long" about sex education.
(9) For a humorist who came on the scene in the 1960s, Coren was surprisingly prudish.
(10) In the UK, we are still slightly discomfited by the idea of baring all in a confessional essay, partly, one presumes, because we are restrained by a sort of cultural prudishness, but also because we do not wish to appear self-indulgent.
(11) I had friends who lost their virginity at 13, and I’d be like, ‘Disgusting!’” Despite her prudishness, as soon as Peake started to act, she was stereotyped.
(12) I half shouted to a rep, ‘I’m not singing that’ and he said ‘yeah it is a bit naughty’, as if I was being prudish.
(13) I am asking, if Christianity managed to imbue Anglo-Saxon cultures with this prudishness, why did the moral strictures of any other religious system not imbue their cultures?"
(14) "You don't think Islam has had just as much an effect on prudishness?"
(15) Facebook has been accused of a lot of things, from riding roughshod over people’s privacy to prudishly censoring the most innocuous of photographs.
(16) She will insist she is not arguing for "prudishness or hankering after some rose-tinted picture of childhood", but for families and children that can negotiate issues of sexuality with dignity and respect.
(17) It is hard to imagine a scandal of Claridge’s proportions kicking off over here – not because Americans are less prudish than Brits, but because breastfeeding in public is clearly just a scheduling issue, and if New Yorkers understand anything it’s the Primacy of the Schedule.
(18) 'I'm really not prudish about doing nudity,' she continues.
(19) Galleguillos said his tweets – calling Rentería a “weeping negrito” and attacking “prudish, timid hypocrites” – were sent “in good faith … I called him negrito with affection, caringly, because he cried, the man cried.
(20) Experts warned that Seek McCartney’s approval should not necessarily be hailed as a sign of a relaxation of censors’ usually prudish attitudes.