Bragging vs Modesty - What's the difference?
bragging | modesty |
The act of one who brags.
* Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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 bragging and modesty
is that bragging is the act of one who brags while modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.As a verb bragging
is .bragging
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(en noun)- there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.
