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Перевод: modesty

[существительное]
скромность ; сдержанность ; застенчивость ; благопристойность ; умеренность ; стеснительность

Тезаурус:

1. overstep the modesty of nature.
2. Modesty in looks and behaviour is considered to be the ideal in Judaism.
3. This terminology borrowed directly from ideas of female passion, which also used a language of seething emotions having to be restrained by modesty.
4. Certainly, there is substantial observable and anecdotal evidence that, in the cases of many of our leading frontpersons, qualities other than modesty and friendliness rank highest among the energies they bring to their profession.
5. In Pakistan, "if you see a girl with her Dupatta pushed up and her limbs in a relaxed position, standing and talking to boys, people passing will go on staring and start whispering among themselves - "Where is her modesty!" or, "what is going on there!"
6. The problem is the fundamental modesty of his aspiration, of his person - those unvoluptuous good looks.
7. Women writers were expected to remain within strict bounds of modesty.
8. My own feeling is that Walser's microscript was a symptom of abnormal modesty and self-effacement or self-depreciation in an unbearable modern world where, rather than seek fame, he preferred to be a servant.
9. The kind of modesty Tennyson speaks of I hate.
10. Miller had told Richardson that he hoped to correspond with Dr Alston, King's Professor of Botany in Edinburgh "a man of learning and has good skill in distinguishing plants and a great share of modesty".
11. No one would accuse Mr Healey of retiring modesty.
12. Modesty is hypocrisy!"
13. As if interpreting this remark as veiled disagreement, the newcomer repeated very loudly, looking Agnes straight in the eye: "I detest modesty!