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

His talents were not conspicuous, but his manners were unpresuming, and honesty was depicted on his countenance.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

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

She was a shy, gentle, unpresuming girl, whom, for this reason, perhaps, Margaret had learned to look upon without dislike or scorn.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore