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
They all liked Isaac, a handsome young fellow with pleasant ways, generous and unpretending and loaded with laurels.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
There was no affectation about him; he was almost as much of a plain, unpretending soldier as General Grant himself.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
