unpresuming

Example Sentences

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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

This agricultural young man who had filled in so nicely to give Marjorie a good time, who was so safe and unpresuming, had always seemed rather superior, probably on account of his college experience.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.

Your gift may be given in an unpresuming way.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John

Presently she was sorry she had bowed to him that first day—so self-contained and unpresuming a person as he would evidently have been quite satisfied to overlook the omission.

From The Prodigal Judge by Kester, Vaughan

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)