MODESTY

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Traducere în limba română

modesty substantiv

1. modestie; sfială.

2. cuviinţă, decenţă.

3. (rar) moderaţie, cumpătare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I blushed at the idea, and begged him, in my modesty, not to think of it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He made a little mistake to be sure; but it is to the credit of his modesty.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I put the question, with a hint that it was my companion’s modesty which made him acknowledge his brother as his superior.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Agatha and Amelia appeared to her in their different ways so totally improper for home representation—the situation of one, and the language of the other, so unfit to be expressed by any woman of modesty, that she could hardly suppose her cousins could be aware of what they were engaging in; and longed to have them roused as soon as possible by the remonstrance which Edmund would certainly make.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I have not had the pleasure of visiting in Camden Place so long, replied he, without knowing something of Miss Anne Elliot; and I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural in any other woman.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I assure you, my brother is quite in love with you already; and as for Mr. Tilney—but that is a settled thing—even your modesty cannot doubt his attachment now; his coming back to Bath makes it too plain.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

As no arguments I could urge, in my bewildered condition, had the least effect upon his modesty in inducing him to accept my bedroom, I was obliged to make the best arrangements I could, for his repose before the fire.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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