unpretending

Example Sentences

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He runs and swings freely and smiles an unpretending Nebraska smile.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2017

In fact nothing could well be more simple — more utterly unpretending than this cottage.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

In Brooklyn Rev. Henry H. Proctor is the unpretending pastor of an unpretentious little Congregational Church and its equally unpretentious membership.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this the world will not care much, so I shall hazard a few critical remarks only, or an unpretending chalk sketch now and then till I have learned to do something.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

It nests among coarse grass and herbage, making an unpretending structure of the former material, which is lined with fibres.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)