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Be unassuming
adjective
Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation
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Exact(8)
"I had to be unassuming.
He likes to be unassuming.
Mr. Ito, by comparison, can be unassuming.
"I wanted the walls to be unassuming and soothing," he said.
Mr. Williams may be unassuming, but when he says, "It's going to be a much, much tougher, stranger movie, much uglier," Bogart himself couldn't sound more certain.
Charles E. Schumer, soon to be New York's senior senator and also a Democrat, said Mrs. Clinton had impressed people with her willingness to be unassuming, at least initially.
Similar(52)
He's unassuming.
But he was unassuming.
My mother was unassuming.
Gordon is unassuming.
His manner is unassuming, modest, very charming.
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