immodest
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• adjective
Lacking humility or reserve; overly boastful, conceited, or forward about one's own abilities and achievements.
"It might sound immodest to say so, but our research team produced the most comprehensive study on the subject to date."
Lacking conventional decency or decorum, especially by exposing too much of the body or behaving in a sexually suggestive manner.
"During the Victorian era, exposing even an ankle in public was widely regarded as immodest."
Exceeding reasonable or customary limits in size, amount, or scope; extravagant.
"The developer submitted an immodest proposal that would completely reshape the historic waterfront."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-16th century from Middle French immodeste or directly from Latin immodestus ('unrestrained, excessive'), formed by combining the privative prefix in- ('not') with modestus ('keeping due measure'), from modus ('measure, manner').