Clues for the word "MODESTY"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 61 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 06, 2025.
Definition of modesty
- n. - The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
- n. - Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
Referring Clues
- Victorian virtue
- What blowhards lack
- Unwillingness to crow
- "The only sure bait when you angle for praise": Lord Chesterfield
- Asset of one who's retiring
- "Aw shucks" quality
- Trait of a good sportsman
- Unassuming nature
- "Aw, shucks" quality
- Reserve
- Unwillingness to boast
- Braggart's lack
- Blowhard's lack
- Shy quality
- Shy quality
- Propriety of manner
- Decorum
- Without arrogance
- Freedom from vanity
- Show-off's lack
- Trait lacking in egotists
- Shyness
- Humility
- Decency
- Reserve accommodation for animals, by the way
- Doctor meeting fate lacking in reserve
- Quality of being unpretentious
- Songs by tenor breaking setter's reserve
- Self-deprecating quality
- Unassumingness
- Humble dwelling following fashion - no ostentation
- Approach hovel in humility
- Demureness or bashfulness
- Humility the way with beastly home
- Way Christians treat bully finally eliciting humility
- Reserve designs; then duty is half done
- Simplicity of style with pen
- Freedom from self-centeredness
- Sartre's "virtue of the lukewarm"
- Quality feigned by a humblebrag
- Propriety
- Reason for a cover-up?
- It might go with a miniskirt
- Humble quality
- Humbleness
- "The virtue of the lukewarm," per Sartre
- Motive for a cover-up?
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 04, 2025
- Daily American - January 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 12, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 28, 2024
- Daily American - January 16, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 28, 2023
- USA Today - October 13, 2023
- New York Times - July 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 07, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 20, 2023
- Daily American - January 01, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 28, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - September 26, 2022
- Daily American - January 16, 2018
- USA Today - December 19, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - November 12, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - April 13, 2017
- Daily American - January 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 06, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 09, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - September 11, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 18, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - March 01, 2013
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