Braggart vs Modesty - What's the difference?
braggart | modesty |
someone who boasts.
* Shakespeare
The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Moderate behaviour; reserve.
(lb) Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.
As nouns the difference between braggart and modesty
is that braggart is someone who boasts while modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.braggart
English
Noun
(en noun)- O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And braggart with my tongue.