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Immodesty

noun

The trait of being vain and conceited.

The perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals. Synonym: exhibitionism.

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"Immodesty" Quotes from Famous Books

... with that stolid contempt which Finistere Bretons cherish toward those women who show their hair—an immodesty unpardonable in the eyes of ...

— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... smile, with its sublime immodesty, that aspiration seemed to Felix infinitely touching. What less could youth want in the very heart of Spring? And, watching her face put up to the night, her parted lips, and the moon-gleam fingering her white ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... And loosed in words of sudden fire the wrath And smouldered wrong that burnt him all within; But evermore it seemed an easier thing At once without remorse to strike her dead, Than to cry 'Halt,' and to her own bright face Accuse her of the least immodesty: And thus tongue-tied, it made him wroth the more That she could speak whom his own ear had heard Call herself false: and suffering thus he made Minutes an age: but in scarce longer time Than at Caerleon the full-tided Usk, Before he turn to fall seaward ...

— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... in a favourable, others in an opposite manner. The bishop of Sarum in the history of his own times, says, that the stage was defiled beyond all example. 'Dryden, the great master of dramatic poetry, being a monster of immodesty and impurities of all sorts.'[8] The late lord Lansdown took upon himself to vindicate Mr. Dryden's character from this severe imputation; which was again answered, and apologies for it, by Mr. Burnet, the bishop's son. But not to dwell on these ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber

... have always been notorious for their immodesty; and notwithstanding the past labours of English missionaries, the island continues to be the Polynesian Paphos. The moral standard of the population has not been raised since they came under the ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

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