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Definition of Overmodest
1. Adjective. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
Definition of Overmodest
1. a. Modest to excess; bashful.
Definition of Overmodest
1. Adjective. Excessively modest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overmodest
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmodest
Literary usage of Overmodest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"They're not behind any nation in arrogance," said Lilly ; " and if they have got
in the rear, it has not been because they were overmodest. ..."
2. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1899)
"The above items were extracted from his overmodest classmates only by physical
force. If you are interested in this column send in anything you have. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"His position at Berlin was pleasant, but overmodest, and offered no near prospects
for promotion. So he accepted the proffer, and prepared at the end of ..."
4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... but nowadays women of unprepossessing physical outlines or of overmodest minds
prefer some mode of drapery that gives their ingenuity a chance to rival ..."
5. The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John G. Lockhart, Ricardo de los Ríos (1881)
"... it is not good to bear too hard upon a man that is so overmodest and so much
in affliction: for certainly this must needs be a miserable soul; ..."
6. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The commission thought his view was overmodest. The Cabinet as a body placed all
responsibility on the council, sometimes requesting that it was not to be ..."