modestest

• What could my old friend Sir Charles Marlow mean by recommending his son as the modestest young man in town! —  Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
• To say that he is a Genius, and the Prince of Eccentrics, is perhaps the only way to cut the Gordian knot of criticism in his instance Let me add, in conclusion, that Robson, off the stage, is one of the mildest, modestest, most unassuming of men. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• What is left, 'tis hoped will not offend the chastest reader, or the modestest hearer." —  A History of English Prose Fiction
• Defoe thought that "Moll Flanders" would not "offend the chastest reader or the modestest hearer"; Richardson, that the prolonged effort to seduce Pamela could be described "without raising a single idea throughout the whole that shall shock the exactest purity"; Fielding, that there was nothing in "Tom Jones" which "could offend the chastest eye in the perusal." —  A History of English Prose Fiction
• She's the modestest, gentlest, sweetest little lady I ever saw. —  Vicky Van

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