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immodestly

[ih-mod-ist]

adjective

not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.

not modest in assertion or pretension; forward; impudent.

Origin:
1560–70; < Latin immodestus unrestrained, immoderate. See im-², modest

Related forms

im·mod·est·ly, adverb

im·mod·es·ty, noun

Synonyms
2. vain, exaggerated, inflated.

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immodest (ɪˈmɒdɪst)

—*adj*
1.	indecent, esp with regard to sexual propriety; improper
2.	bold, impudent, or shameless

im'modestly

—*adv*

im'modesty

—n

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"For when girls have been corrupted, and have been scorned by their lovers after they have immodestly copulated with them in the hope and promise of marriage with them, and have found themselves disappointed in all their hopes and everywhere despised, they turn to the help and protection of devils; either for the sake of vengeance by bewitching those lovers or the wives they have married, or for the sake of giving themselves up to every sort of lechery. Alas! experience tells us that there is no number to such girls, and consequently the witches that spring from this class are innumerable."

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