unostentatiousness

Example Sentences

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A prohibitory tariff in that direction would "protect" some of the unostentatiousness of social life that befits a republican people.

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

The homeliness and unostentatiousness of the middle class American were captivating.

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

I had a feeling, anyhow, that unostentatiousness of approach might not be bad.

From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk

His conversation was remarkable in manner for perfect unostentatiousness, clearness, and self-control, and in matter for breadth and minuteness of political information.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various