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or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought, But we proscribe the least immodest thought. Dryden.

In an immodest manner.

Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.

Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

pute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts.

nity or indecorum; modesty. Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. Burke. Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. Roscommon.

Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

Immodesty. Sheldon.

Irreverent. [Obs.] Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype.

storted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion. With jealous leer malign Eyed them askance. Milton. She gives the leer of invitation. Shak. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. Pope.

h derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at. To scoff religion is ridiculously proud and immodest. Glanwill.

ut its surcease." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.