The phrase "public modesty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a societal expectation or standard of modest behavior in public settings.
Example: "The event was designed to promote public modesty, encouraging attendees to dress and behave in a manner that reflects community values."
Alternatives: "social modesty" or "civic modesty."
The writer was jailed in February for "violating public modesty".
The judge pronounced him guilty of "injuring public modesty" and sentenced him to two years.
The Egyptian author Ahmed Naji has been given a two-year prison sentence for "violating public modesty" after publishing a book with references to sex and drugs.
The novelist Ahmed Naji is serving a two-year prison sentence for violating "public modesty" with sexually explicit passages in his experimental novel "The Use of Life". Many fear that his imprisonment will lead to more self-censorship.
And though he was careful to pooh-pooh the idea in displays of public modesty, Mr. Davis was hardly displeased to be mentioned in the same breath with his only predecessor to make it to the White House: Ronald Reagan.
The order had been imposed by the capital's superintendent of public buildings and grounds, and with public modesty assured, the police officers could then concentrate on maintaining the beach purely for the enjoyment of the city's white population.
Along with the watered-down politically correct liberalism, the master, journeyman, and apprentice alike should express in public their modesty, their lack of divine inspiration (otherwise the system couldn't sell itself as being able to teach craft), and the predominance of sheer luck and fortuitousness in any success they've had.
— Before he started the whole alien spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty.
He said an investigation had been opened and the club's manager detained "for violation against good morals and public outrage against modesty".
He said that the club's manager had been detained "for violation against good morals and public outrage against modesty," adding that an investigation was under way.
For his public demonstrations of modesty, Gardner is keenly aware of his persona outside his home state.
