unpresuming
Example Sentences
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Durbin’s unpresuming, unfailingly courteous, thoroughly Midwestern personality has played against his interests at times.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2022
Day after day, week after week, and month after month, the Secretary watched the footsteps of the beautiful girl; but still it was silent, unpresuming adoration.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy
Confronting Miss Pink, she now spoke and looked with the gracious courtesy and the unpresuming self-confidence of the order to which she belonged.
From My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins
The spirit of piety never seemed to me nobler, than in this unusual expression of unmurmuring, unpresuming resignation.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
They are always kind and considerate, provided only these persons possess that unpresuming quietude of manner, which makes up a considerable part of that character they delight in, and which they call safe.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various
