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
Wherever you find an old soldier of the "emperor," as they delight to call him, you find a noble, brave, unpretending man.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
This unpretending attribute, together with System and Regularity, has achieved more for the good of the race, than all the erratic efforts of genius combinedly.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
