immodest

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMMOD'EST, adjective [Latin immodestus; in and modestus, modest. See the latter.] 1. Literally, not limited to due bounds. Hence, in a general sense, immoderate; exorbitant, unreasonable; arrogant. 2. Appropriately, wanting in the reserve or restraint which decency requires; wanting in decency and delicacy. It is immodest in decency and delicacy. It is immodest to treat superiors with the familiarity that is customary among equals. 3. Wanting in chastity; unchaste; lewd; as an immodest female. 4. Impure; indelicate; as an immodest thought. 5. Obscene; as an immodest word.
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