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

Their captain was a young man of great worth, and of such unpresuming manners that he gave universal satisfaction.

From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James

Confronting Miss Pink, she now spoke and looked with the gracious courtesy and the unpresuming self-confidence of the order to which she belonged.

From My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie

Day after day, week after week, and month after month, the Secretary watched the footsteps of the beautiful girl; but still it was silent, unpresuming adoration.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

Mild and unpresuming, he won the love of all who came in contact with him.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various