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Synonyms for unostentatious
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : os-ten-tey-shuh s, -tuh n- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɒs tɛnˈteɪ ʃəs, -tən- |
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Définition of unostentatious
Origin :- 1747, from un- (1) "not" + ostentatious. Related: Unostentatiously.
- adj modest
- His generosity to brother artists in need was splendid, but quiet and unostentatious.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- Unostentatious in her work, yet such service cannot escape comment.
- Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
- “She is my ideal of unostentatious respectability,” answered MacShaughnassy.
- Extract from : « Novel Notes » by Jerome K. Jerome
- By nature he was a democrat, plain, simple, and unostentatious.
- Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 » by Various
- Table appointments at this time were most simple and unostentatious.
- Extract from : « As I Remember » by Marian Gouverneur
- She was living, at this time, in an unostentatious and quiet manner at Rome.
- Extract from : « History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt » by Jacob Abbott
- Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
- Extract from : « Through the Year With Famous Authors » by Mabel Patterson
- In every sense, they were preserving their unostentatious, homely American ways.
- Extract from : « Twenty Years in Europe » by Samuel H. M. Byers
- In private life he is firm, gentle, simple and unostentatious.
- Extract from : « Odette's Marriage » by Albert Delpit
- But how came it that you had it published in so too unostentatious a form?
- Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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