immodesty


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Synonyms for immodesty

the trait of being vain and conceited

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the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals

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"If I claim I am the creation of this Parliament, perhaps it will not be treated as immodesty. The Parliament gave a direction to my political vision as I got to learn a lot from the serious discussions held in both Houses of the Parliament," he said, adding, he attended the first session of the Parliament on July 22, 1969.
So it wasn't exactly a surprise when he justified his startling intervention in Janet Lim Napoles' serious illegal detention case with yet another act of immodesty.
Would the correspondent have the immodesty to utter that to a Ukrainian person, displaced or no?
"I tell the Communications Ministry to clamp down on the instigators of the networks encouraging immodesty. If you don't do so, then you will have failed to carry out your duty.
This catastrophic thinking has resulted in religious insanity that says girls should be taught their place in the streets and public spaces, to push them into donning the veil and push them out of the public sphere.Their rationale is that if women feel safe on the streets, they will be tempted to commit the sin of immodesty.By that virtue, harassment becomes a noble religious goal.
In betraying this aspiration at a later age, in allowing that there might have been someone who wrote with conviction, in admitting my certainty that no one ever read my writing; in stabilizing the four consonants and two vowels of my false pseudonym; in stereotyping it correctly, I tempered my immodesty and consented to hurl myself into the abyss that my youthful ambition aspired to preserve in a silent flutter of wings.
Omer al-Bashir despite his seemingly joyous appearances and dances in his public gathering waving his stick, the misery caused by the prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest him because of the crimes he perpetrated in Darfur inconspicuously seen on his callous face and his immodesty phrases and words directed at his victims and survivors of his crimes in Darfur.
Immodesty and narcissism certainly can be useful traits in certain situations.
Despite its shameless immodesty, an undeniably interesting programme chronicling some of the proudest milestones in commercial broadcasting history.
But there should be a licence to have a kid, I think" Mad Men star January Jones shows great immodesty.
But there should be a licence to have a kid, I think" Mad Men star January Jones, below, demonstrates spectacular immodesty "This is a fantastic life I live, but you don't get to grab your coffee any more.
But there should be a licence to have a kid, I think" - Mad Men star January Jones demonstrates spectacular immodesty.