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

But our Solicitor-General rose to his legs a happy man, with all that grace of motion, that easy slowness, that unassumed confidence which belongs to the ordinary doings of our familiar life.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

"What on earth do you mean?" asked his hostess, in unassumed stupefaction.

From Mrs. Dud's Sister by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

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

The terrified householders threw open their doors with unassumed alacrity.

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