unpresumptuous

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An unpresumptuous little chocolate ripple does not interest them; they want presumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You must be sure and introduce me," she said, with a sparkle of her eyes that Frank was too unpresumptuous to understand.

From Love, the Fiddler by Osbourne, Lloyd

Years later the adolescent falls in love with death; primps his spirit for it; recalls in unpresumptuous brotherhood Shelley and Keats and Chatterton.

From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward

His to enjoy   With a propriety that none can feel,   But who, with filial confidence inspired,   Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye,   And smiling say—My Father made them all!

From The Task and Other Poems by Cowper, William

With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John