false modesty

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false modesty - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "false modesty":
     Quakerishness, censoriousness, demureness, demurity, hideboundness,
     mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, priggishness, primness,
     prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness,
     sanctimony, smugness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness,
     stuffiness