unpretending
Example Sentences
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He runs and swings freely and smiles an unpretending Nebraska smile.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
In fact nothing could well be more simple — more utterly unpretending than this cottage.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
In Brooklyn Rev. Henry H. Proctor is the unpretending pastor of an unpretentious little Congregational Church and its equally unpretentious membership.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is principally as a curiosity of literature that it will be read, as it does not narrate any very novel or original adventures, and the style is very simple and unpretending.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
This is a plain and unpretending structure, on the corner of Calliope and Phytanee streets; and like its near neighbor, St. Paul's, evidently erected more for utility than for external display.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman
