unpresuming

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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

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

His talents were not conspicuous, but his manners were unpresuming, and honesty was depicted on his countenance.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

I conjectured it might be the one o’Clock beer—Old women with bobbins and red cloaks and unpresuming bonnets I see creeping about the heath.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

I conjectured it might be the one o’clock beer—Old women with bobbins and red cloaks and unpresuming bonnets I see creeping about the heath.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney