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The phrase "a more unassuming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the modesty or lack of pretentiousness of one thing to another.
Example: "She preferred a more unassuming style of dress, opting for simple colors and classic cuts."
Alternatives: "a less ostentatious" or "a more modest".

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Rarely have I come across a more unassuming railway operator.

There is, however, a more unassuming workout that might not get the column inches, but has all the benefits: walking.

Perhaps a more unassuming genre director would have tightened this movie's cables a little, so that it had more tension and less revulsion.

In the end, the Apollo spacesuit was made in a more unassuming fashion: needle-sewn by seamstresses taken from the shop floor of Playtex, the bra and girdle company.

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The launch in 2000 could hardly have been more unassuming — "CSI" was a last-minute addition to the fall lineup and scheduled for Fridays, traditionally a tough night to launch a show.

Mr Blankfein, a postman's son from the Bronx, is considered more unassuming than Mr Paulson indeed he was rejected on his first application to the bank.

Aesthetically, the best Twilight offering is still the first, when Catherine Hardwicke kept the more unassuming, less bloated but, yes, ultimately less ambitious film to a chilly Washington-state palette of grays and harsh whites.

Like its more unassuming predecessor, the Misty II "personal robot" is designed to be a kind of development platform — albeit one that's a lot easier to write for than traditional robots.

Starks is quieter, more unassuming.

Blue Hill could hardly be more unassuming.

But the most winning details are more unassuming.

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