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

After despatching his unpresuming letter to the Admiralty, which has been already given, he wrote to his brother, in London, the following letter: Crescent, 21st Oct.

From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

"Waddles is a right unpresuming sort of a man in most respects," Evans volunteered as they entered the cookhouse.

From The Settling of the Sage by Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George)

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 Kennedy, John P.

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