The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MODESTY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result MODESTY
- Blaise, perhaps, having way with pen
- My penning lyric poems with little time for humility
- Reserve humble abode, following fashion
- Reserve place for swine, way earlier
- Decency of every other character in smutty song’s lines
- Decorum in fashions? Totally gutted
- Humility the way with beastly home
- Doctor meeting fate lacking in reserve
- Way, way, way at the back showing shyness
- Is across the Channel in nothing less than moody reserve
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What does MODESTY mean?
MODESTY noun- The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
- Moderate behaviour; reserve.
- (specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.