unassuming
English
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[edit]unassuming (comparative more unassuming, superlative most unassuming)
- Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.
- 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
- Various bridges were required, including a lofty one at Brantham, but money was saved by providing unassuming structures at the three intermediate stations.
- 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 84:
- The crews themselves throughout were an interesting study. The drivers, as older men, bore that air of quite unassuming competence, as British drivers have always done and which in any field has come to be regarded as characteristic of men bearing heavy responsibility to which at the same time they are equal.
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[edit]modest with no pretensions or ostentation
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