- overmodesty
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Universalium. 2010.
overmodesty
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overmodesty — o′ver•mod′est•y n … From formal English to slang
overmodesty — n … Useful english dictionary
false modesty — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, censoriousness, demureness, demurity, hideboundness, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, stiff … Moby Thesaurus
primness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, buckram, censoriousness, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, demureness, demurity, dignity, extrinsicality, false modesty, form, formality, formalization, gravity, hideboundness, impersonality,… … Moby Thesaurus
sanctimony — Synonyms and related words: Pecksniffery, Quakerishness, Tartuffery, Tartuffism, bibliolatry, cant, censoriousness, charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal, demureness, demurity, empty gesture, false modesty, false piety,… … Moby Thesaurus
smugness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, amour propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity, butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty, fulsomeness, glibness,… … Moby Thesaurus
stuffiness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, THI, airlessness, antiquation, aridity, aridness, authoritarianism, barrenness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, bloodlessness, callowness, cantankerousness, censoriousness, characterlessness,… … Moby Thesaurus
priggishness — n 1. prudery, prudishness, puritan icalness, overmodesty, old maidishness, Grundyism; hideboundness, strait lacedness, buckram, stiffness, stiff neckedness, strictness, severity, formality; snobbery, snobbishness, stiltedness, Sl. snootiness, Sl … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
prudery — n coyness, overmodesty; priggishness, puritanicalness. See also priggishness(def. 1) … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
