'immodest' is a valid and widely used word in written English.
You can use it to describe a person as lacking in modesty or to describe a thing as displaying too much or too little. Example: His immodest attitude towards his accomplishments was off-putting.
It's nothing like the early days of the revolution when neighborhood vigilantes would torment those they deemed immodest under a selective interpretation of the Islamic principle of "commanding the good and forbidding the evil".
"The positioning of this ban is that women drivers somehow breach the values of modesty, which is absurd, as by any objective standpoint there is nothing at all immodest about a women driving a car".
Maybe it is the contrast between these absurdities, and damehood's cosier, far more inclusive associations with aprons, wisdom, occasional shouts of "behind you", that allows new beneficiaries to exult to a point that might sound immodest were they alluding, say, to a future of being called sir or milord.
Although the popes are regarded as successors to Saint Peter, no pope has ever been immodest enough to call himself Peter II.
Rival Shia militias with murky links to Iran compete violently for control and terrorise the population particularly women deemed immodest, barbers and those selling alcohol.For the moment there are no open battles.
Such is the case with Justice Alito's singularly immodest opinion in Hobby Lobby.
At present, bosses rarely say what they think because it might disrupt the harmony, or be seen as immodest.
In Islamic countries there are frequent complaints about the open consumption of alcohol and immodest dress of Chinese businessmen and workers.
Moreover, and strangely, they feel strongly about this because, in their view of the world since September 11th, it is part of how America can win the war on terrorism and, as their immodest title has it, put "an end to evil .In fairness, Britain and Europe crop up only towards the end of this "manual for victory", tacked on to a breathtaking list of more urgent prescriptions.
It would be interesting to know just how much carbon dioxide was created as a result of the foresters' actions.Thomas CatheyBoulder, ColoradoTour de SarkozySIR – Nicolas Sarkozy may indeed be "immodest", but you are certainly not helping to humble him ("The world according to Sarkozy", September 1st).
Where I'd say an annual 2% of a $2-3m 2-3mtestate anotmmodest anount for a couple wimmodest longevity genes, or amount-than-perfortly-balancouplertfolio of assets) starts to be rather big money.
