unostentatious

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For the Armani look itself, the document commits them to the "search for an essential, modern, elegant and unostentatious style with attention to detail and visibility".

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2023

Stretching from 1976 to 2003, this is a story of profound connection and awakening disquiet, which Sullivan directs with his customary unostentatious lucidity.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

They seemed to be living the most ordinary of lives, Jonathan and Diana Toebbe - professional, comfortable, unostentatious.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2021

Sadly, in recent years, this most unostentatious and proletarian of foods has been gentrified and made to dress up gaudily with superfluous additives such as honey, Nutella and cinnamon.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

Whether they will not, when this time arrives, lose on the side of unostentatious enjoyment more than they will gain by increased splendour, may, I think, be very doubtful.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton