modesty in Arabisch

Voorbeeldzinnen
Sarrasine, admiring the modesty of his mistress, indulged in serious reflections concerning the future.


Modesty is the ultimate form of arrogance.


Modesty is a virtue, but you’ll get further without it.


But her caressing hands appeared more like those of a mother than a lover, and her tenderness was accompanied with a certain disinterestedness and extraordinary modesty. She seemed to prefer remaining obstinately in the studio,


For the unhappy creature is going to be a mother, he said sadly. "She hides her condition with a certain modesty, but from my window, I have often seen her making the dainty layette."


His father was always pacing up and down the reception hall before the military cap which was exhibited upon the hat rack with modesty and radiancy.


One more, and offered with such simplicity! "Lack of religion and good habits!" Then with sudden modesty, he doubted the woman's veracity.


She even took offense, with sudden modesty, becuse Argensola tried as he had often done before, to squeeze her hand under the table.


This middle class woman who would advance so confidently toward him and then retreat with such capricious outbursts of modesty, was a new type for him.


but with a blushing modesty, admitting in advance that in the world there was more, much more, that she wished to become acquainted with.


Synoniemen
formality and propriety of manner: demureness, properness, propriety, correctitude, reserve