unassumed

Example Sentences

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In the finished film Rogers' unassumed self-consciousness helps to make sharper his portrait of an Oklahoma oil man who takes his family to Paris to get background.

From Time Magazine Archive

Again and again she had this feeling when she was with him—an uneasy intuition that his good humour was not entirely unassumed, that he was concealing a dangerous weapon beneath his offensive familiarity.

From One Man in His Time by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Amber watched them go with unassumed indifference; their type interested him little.

From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph

"I have no pretension to abilities like yours, Mr. Massingbred," said Scanlan, with unassumed modesty.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Her tone almost startled him, its unassumed cheerfulness was so unlooked for.

From The Wings of the Morning by Tracy, Louis