unpresuming

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Durbin’s unpresuming, unfailingly courteous, thoroughly Midwestern personality has played against his interests at times.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2022

By and by he came back, serene as ever, friendly and unpresuming.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

"Waddles is a right unpresuming sort of a man in most respects," Evans volunteered as they entered the cookhouse.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)

The representative with us was a very good-tempered, amiable, unpresuming man, too young as yet to be formed in character.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The spirit of piety never seemed to me nobler, than in this unusual expression of unmurmuring, unpresuming resignation.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob