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

The terrified householders threw open their doors with unassumed alacrity.

From The Blue Lights A Detective Story by Kummer, Frederic Arnold

Sir Andrew's eyes followed the pretty little figure, until it had quite disappeared, then they met Lady Blakeney's with unassumed merriment.

From The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

But she laughed at them with mirth that was so evidently unassumed that they blushed to their ears.

From The Winds of the World by Mundy, Talbot

"Let us hope . . . !" he said, with unassumed penitence on behalf of his inscrutable daughter.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George