unassuming

Example Sentences

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It’s unassuming at first due to its sheer simplicity.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Maybe Yamamoto’s unassuming everyman act is just that good?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Quiet, unassuming, even shy, particularly in public, McSweeney was known for being obsessed by winning, constantly fearful of complacency and ever aware of Labour's track record of losing far more elections than it wins.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

And then there were the Biden grandkids, five altogether, all of them as outgoing and unassuming as Joe and Jill themselves.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama